brainist

plural brainists

1. Someone who values the brain and its power.

   That makes God brainist! Non-brainists have rights too you know!

   1999 October 21, ONEstar, “PROVE THAT GOD DOES NOT EXIST !!!!”, in alt.religion.christian (Usenet)

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   We could all make jokes about "brainists": people who see you just for the grey matter.

   1991, Maximum Rocknroll - Issue 101

   I can see the difference now between me and my wife having our offspring 'perfected' and a bowl of genetic soup being inserted into a neutralised egg and put into some fem's body to be raised by a gang of brainists.

   2014, Suzann Dodd, Planet Smudge, →ISBN

2. One who believes cognition and sentience are purely a matter of physical brain functions.

   Some brainists might suppose that a postmortem study of Einstein's brain would provide clues as to the cerebral processes underlying genius.

   2016, Sal Restivo, Red, Black, and Objective: Science, Sociology, and Anarchism, →ISBN

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   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.

   2007, Henry L. Roediger III, Yadin Dudai, Susan M. Fitzpatrick, Science of Memory: Concepts, →ISBN, page 145

   By placing the mind solely within the physical realm—as the brainists would have it— is not any more a solution to the mysteries of human consciousness than is talking—in-tongues.

   2015, Lucian Krukowski, This Place of Prose and Poetry, →ISBN, page 49

3. One who creates music by re-experiencing emotions while attached to an EEG cap.

   The installation was also comprised of four participating parties, distributed around the world but connected via the Internet: the brainist, the composer/conductor, the physical audience (Phipps Hall), and the virtual (Internet) audience.

   2011, Tim Mullen, Richard Warp, Adam Jansch, “Minding the (Transatlantic) Gap: An Internet-Enabled Acoustic Brain-Computer Music Interface.”, in NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression)

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   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.

   2011, Sidney D ́Mello, Arthur Graesser, Bjoern Schuller, Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, →ISBN

   In [21] we have four musicians (a violinist, a flautist, a cellist, and a 'brainist'), where during the performance the brainist delivers drone sounds by re-experiencing emotions (classified by EEG) that has been associated with the sounds during a training session...

   2015, Anton Nijholt, “Competing and collaborating brains: multi-brain computer interfacing”, in Brain-Computer Interfaces

comparative more brainist · superlative most brainist

1. Holding the belief that cognition and sentience are the result of brain functions.

   This entails jettisoning, as I urge in this book, brainist and neuroist assumptions and perspectives.

   2017, Sal Restivo, Sociology, Science, and the End of Philosophy, →ISBN

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   And, their specieist survival instinct (another totally Natural instinct that *brainist deny) finally wins them over

   1995 September 5, dannie hawkins, “life duty death”, in sci.anthropology (Usenet)

   So AI has been anything but brainist in that sense. On the other hand, it is also appreciated that different sort of hardware can run different algorithms, ...

   1997 July 2, Anders N Weinstein, “Brute Force, or Bitmap, Rationality (was: Re: Rationality)”, in comp.ai (Usenet)

   The second reason to start with such a review is my belief that the current pushback by psychologists and educators who are skeptical about the surge of “brainist” neuro-explanations is inadequate and needs to be more conceptually deep and far-reaching.

   2017, Igor M. Arievitch, Beyond the Brain: An Agentive Activity Perspective on Mind, →ISBN, page 7

2. Prejudiced based on intelligence and cognitive ability.

   That makes God brainist! Non-brainists have rights too you know!

   1999 October 21, ONEstar, “PROVE THAT GOD DOES NOT EXIST !!!!”, in alt.religion.christian (Usenet)

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   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.

   1976, Encounter - Volume 46, page 395

   I hate to be "brainist" but Boardman's IQ is about 10 times Gascoigne's; he's not 50lbs overweight; and he's not overpaid.

   1995 July 7, Rachel McKay, “Gazza Boardman”, in rec.bicycles.racing (Usenet)

   Upon reviewing the types of geographic knowledge spaces in which animals are situated, it seems that perhaps as academics we remain subject to what Laland & Hoppitt (2003) refer to as a 'brainist bias' – a bias that maintains a view of an evolutionary hierarchy that culminates in human reason and language.

   2015, Linda Madden, “Knowledge spaces and the urban jungle: Animal agency in the geographical understandings of public space”, in MFCO Working Paper Series

   We humans are so brainist. Once nature hits on a really effective design it tends to stick with it: the basic crocodile layout is fantastically effective, and has not changed significantly for some 80 million years

   2015, Martin Hughes-Games, A Wild Life: My Adventures Around the World Filming Wildlife, →ISBN