superbrain
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]superbrain (plural superbrains)
- An exceptionally intelligent person; a genius.
- 1945, Eugene Jackson Benge, Manpower in marketing:
- It does not take a superbrain to enumerate specifically the duties expected of a new man […]
- 1983, Steve Odell, More puzzles for superbrains:
- An exceptionally powerful brain or artificial intelligence.
- 1965, Daniel Stephen Halacy, Cyborg: evolution of the superman:
- This first superbrain died after four years, suffering understandably from mental derangement brought on by its brain weight […]
- 2000, “Utopia”, in Felt Mountain, performed by Goldfrapp:
- I'm wired to the world / That's how I know everything / I'm superbrain / That's how they made me
- 2003, Anthony J Sanford, Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird, The nature and limits of human understanding:
- There are good biological reasons why we have not become just superbrain, rational calculators, even were this biologically possible.