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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