Meaning of brainist | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone who values the brain and its power.
2. One who believes cognition and sentience are purely a matter of physical brain functions.
3. One who creates music by re-experiencing emotions while attached to an EEG cap.

Examples

“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⟳!”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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...”

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