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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who accepts the doctrine or opinion that the effects of habits, practice, use and disuse, and the direct action of the conditions of life, are transmitted to descendants; a Lamarekian.
- Pertaining to or characterizing the doctrine of the transmissionists.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An adherent of a theory, the transmission theory, that the brain serves to “transmit,” rather than to originate, conclusions, and hence that consciousness may exist independently of the brain.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who believes that the
brain onlytransmits consciousness rather thanoriginating it
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