Brainist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Brainist is a noun meaning Someone who values the brain and its power.
Meaning
Someone who values the brain and its power.
More Meanings
- One who believes cognition and sentience are purely a matter of physical brain functions.
- One who creates music by re-experiencing emotions while attached to an EEG cap.
- Holding the belief that cognition and sentience are the result of brain functions.
- Prejudiced based on intelligence and cognitive ability.
Example Sentences
That makes God brainist! Non-brainists have rights too you know!
We could all make jokes about "brainists": people who see you just for the grey matter.
Some brainists might suppose that a postmortem study of Einstein's brain would provide clues as to the cerebral processes underlying genius.
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.
Word Forms
- brainists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include braine, brainlet, brayne, brainscanner, cerebrotonic, neuroimager.
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