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Neuromania

A critical term coined by certain philosophers and psychologists (e.g., Raymond Tallis) to designate the contemporary craze or obsession with explaining every aspect of human experience—love, art, morality, religion, consciousness—exclusively through brain activity. Neuromania reduces the human being to their brain, ignoring the body, environment, culture, and personal history. It is a form of neuroscientific imperialism that promises to “unveil the mysteries of the soul” with fMRI, but often produces trivial or circular explanations. Critics point out that neuromania is an academic and media fad that lends a scientific aura to commonplaces. It mistakes correlation for causation and confuses necessary neural conditions with sufficient psychological explanations.
NeuromaniaExample: “A columnist wrote: ‘Passion doesn’t exist – it’s just dopaminergic neurons in the nucleus accumbens.’ A psychologist replied: ‘That’s neuromania: you explained the brain chemistry, but said nothing about the meaning of love.’”
Neuromania by Abzu Land May 27, 2026
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Neuromania

A critical term for the excessive, uncritical faith that all human phenomena—consciousness, emotion, social behavior, morality, art, love—can be fully explained by brain activity, and that neuroscience is the ultimate arbiter of truth about human nature. Neuromania manifests in pop‑science headlines (“Your brain on love”), in reductionist claims that “you are your brain,” and in the dismissal of psychological, social, or cultural explanations as mere “folk psychology.” Critics argue that neuromania confuses correlation with causation, ignores the embodied and embedded nature of cognition, and reduces persons to neural firing patterns. It is a form of neurocentrism that grants neuroscience a monopoly on legitimate knowledge about the mind. While neuroscience is valuable, neuromania treats it as a secular theology.
Example: “The neuromaniac declared that ‘anger is just serotonin and amygdala activation,’ ignoring the abusive relationship history that gave the anger its meaning. He reduced a life story to neurotransmitter levels.”

neuromancer 

Book written in 1984 by William Gibson which spawned the cyberpunk genre. In the book neuromancer is an ultimate AI.
Neuromancer, perfect blend of technology and magic - Deltron Zero
neuromancer by JBadMat May 3, 2006

Necromania 

A pornographic movie involving at least one living individual having sex with two or more deceased humans/animals.
Man, did you watch Necromania last night on HBO? That shit was crazy! It also made me kind of hungry...

Negromaniac 

One who says N word to much
Sammy sam-"You fuckin n*gger"

Sammy sam-"Goddamnit, i hate fuckin n*ggers"
Sammy sam- "RAHHHHHHHHH!!!! N*GGERS"
Matthew- "Damn youre such a negromaniac, you must not like them blacks"
Negromaniac by The Real Negro Maniac February 11, 2023

negromaniacal 

A person of the afroccentric decendency who has content for other people and takes out this content with negromaniacal force. This generally entails drive bys, nigger knives, shanks, prison rape, car jackings, jackings, AIDS and general thievery of all sorts.
Dow: "That's one crazy nigger."

Bill: "No, he's negromaniacal."
negromaniacal by Fugget McDoogle December 16, 2006

necromaniac 

A person who dwells on thoughts about death or the dead excessively. Their obsession is beyond simple morbid curiosity, to the point that it's an illness.
Necromaniacs have a preoccupation with corpses and are often also necrophiliacs.
necromaniac by Bloopy May 21, 2018
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Soul digger

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pod person 

A person pretending to be something they aren't, or an impostor. This is inferred because of the old alien movies where alien pods appear on earth and the "pod people" dispose of the humans and slowly reproduce the bodies, pretending to be humans.
The pod person was pretending to be my father, but I knew that he was an alien when he acted differently than my father ever would have.
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A dead drop is a location used to secretly pass items between two people, without requiring them to meet.

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A common place is to duct tape the item to the underside of a toilet cover in a public restroom.

A signal is sometimes used as well to indicate there is something to pickup, like a pile of stones in a certain formation. After checking the drop the signal is removed.
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