Synonyms for brain
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1. brain

   Mind, in a general sense, includes all the powers of sentient being apart from the physical factors in bodily faculties and activities; in a limited sense, mind is nearly synonymous with intellect, but includes disposition, or the tendency toward action, as appears in the phrase "to have a mind to work." As the seat of mental activity, brain (colloquially brains) is often used as a synonym for mind, intellect, intelligence. Thought, the act, process, or power of thinking, is often used to denote the thinking faculty, and especially the reason. The instinct of animals is now held by many philosophers to be of the same nature as the intellect of man, but inferior and limited; yet the apparent difference is very great.

   An instinct is a propensity prior to experience and independent of instruction.

   Paley Natural Philosophy ch. 18.

   In this sense we speak of human instincts, thus denoting tendencies independent of reasoning or instruction. The soul includes the intellect, sensibilities, and will; beyond what is expressed by the word mind, the soul denotes especially the moral, the immortal nature; we say of a dead body, the soul (not the mind) has fled. Spirit is used especially in contradistinction from matter; it may in many cases be substituted for soul, but soul has commonly a fuller and more determinate meaning; we can conceive of spirits as having no moral nature; the fairies, elves, and brownies of mythology might be termed spirits, but not souls. In the figurative sense, spirit denotes animation, excitability, perhaps impatience; as, a lad of spirit; he sang with spirit; he replied with spirit. Soul denotes energy and depth of feeling, as when we speak of soulful eyes; or it may denote the very life of anything; as, "the hidden soul of harmony," Milton L'Allegro l. 144. Sense may be an antonym of intellect, as when we speak of the sense of hearing; but sense is used also as denoting clear mental action, good judgment, acumen; as, he is a man of sense, or, he showed good sense; sense, even in its material signification, must be reckoned among the activities of mind, tho dependent on bodily functions; the mind, not the eye, really sees; the mind, not the ear, really hears. Consciousness includes all that a sentient being perceives, knows, thinks, or feels, from whatever source arising and of whatever character, kind, or degree, whether with or without distinct thinking, feeling, or willing; we speak of the consciousness of the brute, of the savage, or of the sage. The intellect is that assemblage of faculties which is concerned with knowledge, as distinguished from emotion and volition. Understanding is the Saxon word of the same general import, but is chiefly used of the reasoning powers; the understanding, which Sir Wm. Hamilton has called "the faculty of relations and comparisons," is distinguished by many philosophers from reason in that "reason is the faculty of the higher cognitions or a priori truth."

   Synonyms:
   consciousness, disposition, instinct, intellect, intelligence, mind, reason, reason, sense, soul, spirit, thought, understanding

   Antonyms:
   body, brawn, brute force, material substance, matter

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1. brain, encephalonnoun

   that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord

   Synonyms:
   head, genius, mastermind, learning ability, psyche, mentality, brainpower, mental capacity, wit, mind, encephalon, brainiac, nous

2. brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, witnoun

   mental ability

   "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense"

   Synonyms:
   wag, mindset, card, brainiac, mind-set, encephalon, learning ability, mental capacity, witticism, genius, brainpower, mastermind, outlook, humor, mind, wittiness, mentality, psyche, nous, humour, wit, head

3. mind, head, brain, psyche, nousnoun

   that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason

   "his mind wandered"; "I couldn't get his words out of my head"

   Synonyms:
   learning ability, idea, thinker, heading, promontory, psyche, school principal, wit, mind, head teacher, brainpower, intellect, nous, question, mental capacity, fountainhead, encephalon, point, head, top dog, mentality, creative thinker, headland, mastermind, brainiac, header, genius, headspring, foreland, pass, chief, headway, judgment, read/write head, judgement, drumhead, head word, forefront, capitulum, oral sex, principal, caput, straits, soul

4. genius, mastermind, brain, brainiac, Einsteinnoun

   someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality

   "Mozart was a child genius"; "he's smart but he's no Einstein"

   Synonyms:
   virtuoso, wizard, star, psyche, brainiac, nous, encephalon, champion, superstar, whiz, mavin, flair, wizardry, brainpower, conceiver, learning ability, mastermind, maven, ace, originator, sensation, genius, mind, mental capacity, mentality, hotshot, wiz, wit, adept, brilliance, head, whizz

5. brainverb

   the brain of certain animals used as meat

   Synonyms:
   head, genius, mastermind, learning ability, psyche, mentality, brainpower, mental capacity, wit, mind, encephalon, brainiac, nous

6. brainverb

   hit on the head

7. brainverb

   kill by smashing someone's skull

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1. brainnoun

   Synonyms:
   cerebrum, cerebellum, encephalon

   Associated words:
   cerebrology, encephalology, cerebrate, cerebric, lecithin, excerebration, cephalopathy, encephalitis, apoplexy, cerebral

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1. List of paraphrases for "brain":

   cerebral, e-brain, drain, mastermind, mind, leak, head, flight, leakage, skull, exodus

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1. brain

   Synonyms:
   Cerebrum

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1. Ichiro Kobayashi:

   We aim to understand how the brain represents information about the real world, toward such a goal, we demonstrated that our algorithm can model and read out perceptual contents in the form of sentences from human brain activity. To do this, we modified an existing network model that could generate sentences from images using a deep neural network, a model of visual system, followed by an RNN (recurrent neural network), a model that can generate sentences. Specifically, using our dataset of movies and movie-evoked brain activity, we trained a new model that could infer activation patterns of DNN from brain activity.

2. PJ Uppal:

   Without the heart the brain cannot survive. Without the brain, though, the heart serves no purpose.

3. Benjamin Hooks:

   There are a lot of ways an oppressed people can rise. One way to rise is to study, to be smarter than your oppressor. The concept of rising against oppression through physical contact is stupid and self-defeating. It exalts brawn over brain. And the most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.

4. George A. Dorsey:

   The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.

5. David Nutt:

   The brain is about organizing information and predicting the external world and we think psilocybin disrupts that and makes it more chaotic, people have hallucinations because instead of seeing the world as the brain expects it to be, you see what the brain is doing.