Transmissionist

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Transmissionist \Trans*mis"sion*ist\, n.
     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.


        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]