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@Muttonhawk

Okay, I researched this a bit. From what I gather, you want a word with the rough meaning of "operated from the inside/from within"

To start off, we have to examine the etymology of: automaton 

automaton is the Latinized form of αυτόματον, which is the neuter form of αυτόματος, meaning "acting of one's own will"

αυτόματος splits into two words, αυτός and μέμαα.

The intended sense of αuτός is generally defined by its grammatical context. When used as a lone nominal without an article, it is generally the third person personal pronoun. When appended to a nominal and not possessing the definite article, it is "self". When combined with the definite article, either appended to a nominal or on its own, it is "same".

Thus, in this case, its meaning is self (and "with my own volition, without the help of anyone else, alone" etc.)
As for μέμαα, its was a word first used by Homer in Illiad, and its rough meaning is "to wish eagerly, strive, yearn, desire etc." In modern greek, this is the -μώ in επιθυμώ, which has the same meaning of yearn, desire.

Now, let's take the meaning if automaton: acting of one's own will.

The keyword here is will.
In it's verb form, its meaning is "to wish; desire"
In its noun form, its meaning is "the act or process of using or asserting one's choice; power of choosing one's own actions; purpose or determination" and last but not least "wish or desire."

So you see that they have roughly the same meaning.

There are many words for will. There is the latin animus, the greek βουλή (voo-lee), ἰότης (iotis), ἔλδωρ (eldor), and ἱμείρω (imero). All of those have the same meaning of 'will, desire, longing etc.'

With the help of the above, we can interpret "operated from within" as "having the will on the inside"

esomaton, the word you came up with can be considered to have that meaning, although endomaton would actually be more accurate and better suited to describe what you want. Now, endomaton does not exist as a Greek word, so I do not know if its meaning would be exactly what you want. However, I am quite sure that it's close to the meaning of "operating from within"
I will continue to research this, if you want, and come back to you later with the results.
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