brainist
Collocations
5ADJ.
natural, neuroist
VERB + BRAINIST
book, makes
BRAINIST + NOUN
assumptions, non-brainists
PREP.
in, in
ADV.
finally
Definitions
noun
Someone who values the brain and its power.
We could all make jokes about "brainists": people who see you just for the grey matter.
That makes God brainist! Non-brainists have rights too you know!
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.
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.
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.
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.
adj
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
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, ...
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.
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.
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6We could all make jokes about "brainists": people who see you just for the grey matter.
WiktionaryThat makes God brainist! Non-brainists have rights too you know!
WiktionaryI 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 gan
WiktionaryAnd, their specieist survival instinct (another totally Natural instinct that *brainist deny) finally wins them over
WiktionarySo 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, ...
WiktionaryThis entails jettisoning, as I urge in this book, brainist and neuroist assumptions and perspectives.
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