Brainist
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Someone who values the brain and its power.
"We could all make jokes about "brainists": people who see you just for the grey matter."
- 2 One who believes cognition and sentience are purely a matter of physical brain functions.
"Hence for the cognitivist, working memory is linked to encoding and the formation of a new memory, whereas for the brainist it is linked to retrieval and the use of memory."
- 3 One who creates music by re-experiencing emotions while attached to an EEG cap.
"The brainist sat in a comfortable chair at stage center wearing a high-density EEG cap. Right and left of the stage, elevated speakers presented a recorded audience introduction and subject instructions. These included a brief (few word) description of the feeling the brainist had used to described the feeling he associated with each drone sound following training sessions."
- 1 Holding the belief that cognition and sentience are the result of brain functions.
"And, their specieist survival instinct (another totally Natural instinct that *brainist deny) finally wins them over"
- 2 Prejudiced based on intelligence and cognitive ability.
"But even if we are only amateurs, we can all make sure that the subject of discrimination — whether racist, sexist, heightist, weightist, ageist, brainist, beautyist, or tokenist — is never absent from our waking thoughts."
Example
More examples"We could all make jokes about "brainists": people who see you just for the grey matter."
Etymology
From brain + -ist.
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