Neuroreductionism

The dogmatic insistence that all human experience—thought, emotion, consciousness, morality—is nothing but the firing of neurons and the flow of neurotransmitters. This ideology dismisses psychology, philosophy, culture, and subjective meaning as mere epiphenomena, claiming the brain scanner reveals the only true reality. It’s the belief that you are your connectome, and love is just oxytocin.

Example: After reading a profound novel, someone says, "Your feeling of awe is just a predictable neural reward pathway responding to pattern recognition. The book isn't meaningful; it's just efficiently stimulating your inferior frontal gyrus." This neuroreductionism flattens art, meaning, and humanity into a medical diagram.

by Dumu The Void February 9, 2026

Neurospermia

Neuro-spermia (noun)

A fictional condition in which prolonged sexual inactivity supposedly causes accumulation of sperms in the brain.

Subsequently causing a man’s judgment to become clouded by built-up sexual frustration, leading to impulsive, irrational, or overly horny decision-making. Considered the opposite of post-nut clarity.

He ignored every red flag because neurospermia was clouding his judgment.

by drskeptic February 12, 2026

Neuromayo

Neuromayo is the opposite of neurospicy. As mayonnaise is the opposite of spicy.

Neurospicies have trouble living in a world of neuromayos rules.

by phil_standup February 19, 2026

neurotypical

An euphemism to mentally disabled people for "normal."

A Neurotypical person.

by xdr5t3evq3q February 20, 2026

Neuropsychonormativity Bias

A specialized form of normativity bias centered on neurological and psychological function—the assumption that one's own cognitive style, emotional range, and mental processing are "normal," and that anyone who differs is somehow deficient. Neuropsychonormativity Bias is what makes neurotypical people assume that autistic communication is "broken" rather than different, that introversion is "shyness" rather than a preference, that alternative cognitive styles are disorders rather than variations. It's the bias that pathologizes difference while treating the dominant mode as simply "how minds work." This bias is especially harmful to neurodivergent individuals, who are constantly measured against a standard that was never designed for them and told they're falling short.

Example: "She stimmed during meetings to focus. Her neurotypical colleagues saw it as 'weird,' 'distracting,' 'unprofessional.' Neuropsychonormativity Bias meant they never asked why she did it, never considered that her brain worked differently, never recognized that their standard of 'normal' was just one standard among many. She was the problem; they were just normal. The bias was invisible to them, which is how it hurt her."

by Dumu The Void February 20, 2026

Neutral Objectivity Bias

The belief that the most objective position is always the one that takes no side—that neutrality itself is a form of truth. The Neutral Objectivist treats every conflict as something to be split down the middle, every argument as something to be mediated, every injustice as something with "two valid perspectives." They mistake the performance of non-alignment for the achievement of clarity. This bias is most common among people whose privilege allows them the luxury of never needing to take a side, because no side is actively harming them.

"I'm just neutral on this human rights issue—I want to hear both sides objectively," she said, as if the people being harmed were just one perspective among many. Neutral Objectivity Bias: when comfort with the status quo dresses up as wisdom.

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 22, 2026

Neurosesgo

El neurosesgo es el sesgo cognitivo-emocional automático e inconsciente que el cerebro activa a partir de su programación neuronal profunda (memoria implícita y explícita, traumas, experiencias repetidas, patrones neurodivergentes y priming negativo).

Este filtro determina nuestras percepciones y decisiones sin que seamos conscientes de él, convirtiéndose en el motor invisible de nuestra identidad y conducta diaria.

Con metacognición se puede detectar, elegir conscientemente el lente más adecuado y transformarlo en una herramienta controlada que nos libera del piloto automático y nos acerca a la verdad más precisa.

“El neurosesgo es lo que siento cuando mi mente decide por mí antes de que yo pueda elegir, activando automáticamente el filtro de mis patrones neuronales profundos hasta que uso metacognición para cambiar el lente.”

by Kiluminis March 4, 2026