ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY HUMANIST FAMILY BRAIN STUDY LEARN THE 15 BRAIN IDEAS FAST USING 15 MEMORY CODE CUES AND THE CIRCLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS SYMBOL© October 12, 2017 LEARN THE 15 BRAIN IDEAS FAST BY USING 15 MEMORY CODE CUES AND CIRCLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS SYMBOL© The 15 basic brain ideas provide a sensible and comprehensible scientific linguistic context for understanding the major influence that your language has on your behavior. They can help you create a better self-identity and an enlarged self-awareness (sense-of-self). The 15 brain ideas explain how your brain's physical structures and your mind's mental functions work together to make possible your conscious self-awareness (sense-of-self). This website explains how your dynamic adaptive consciousness is produced by your fine-tuned self-organized memories and the phenomenon of neuroplasticity, which is the ability of your brain to change itself by itself. The new brain knowledge consists of the 15 definitions that describe the 15 basic brain ideas and the new scientific explanations that describe the previously unknown relationships among all of your brain's physical structures and your mind's mental functions. This new brain knowledge needs to get into your permanent declarative memory system where it can be of the most value as you prepare for the challenges of the future. The Alphabetical Brain™ Model presented on this website includes a detailed description of the interactive neuronal connections among the dozens of major organs of your brain and the tens of thousands of words in the English language that you can use to create (carve or sculpt) your conscious self-awareness (sense-of-self) out of the totality of the words in the English language and all of your relationships, intimate and otherwise. Together, your physical brain structure and your phenomenal vocabulary (language database) make possible your ability to think and feel and predict the most probable outcomes of your own behavior and the behavior of others. The modern logic is that your neuroplastic brain makes possible your consciousness and your consciousness makes possible your self-awareness. This humanistic logic gives you the incredible experience of being an adaptable and reasonable altruistic ethical human being who has evolved beyond the obsolete traditional philosophies of the ancient past. In short, the Alphabetical Brain™ Model explains the inner source (inherent cause) of your conscious self-awareness (sense-of-self). Remember the extremely important fact in the experence of all normal people growing up: namely, babies have no capacity for language except for screams and body language in the beginnning, and children actively seek to name things with words and to follow rules of behavior as they develop their intelligence and self-identity (sense-of-self). In both cases, individuals increase their capacities to express themselves as their vocabularies increase in size. This fantastic fact can be observed on a daily basis if you watch babies and children grow their own unique self-identities (personalities) as their vocabularies continuously increase as they get older. The developmental stages of a baby's language acquisition and the achievement of his or her grammatical milestones are phenomenal up to age five and beyond. However, too often we take the growth of the self-awareness of children for granted since it is such a slow but persistent process of brain development. The relevance of the Alphabetical Brain™ Model for understanding the brain/mind connection is obvious, if you focus on the importance of learning a large vocabulary and language skills as a way to expand and enhance the conscious self-awareness of children and adults. This modern scientific way of thinking about the importance of language development assumes that the sum total of real meaning (literal) and imaginary meaning (metaphorical) is greater with the 15 brain ideas in your mind than with a knowledge of only a few separate parts of your brain or a customary way of speaking where the word brain refers only to a part of your body instead of naming the one vital organ that controls your whole body! In other words, the more names and definitions that you have for the many structures of your brain and the many functions of your mind, the more your word power will be able to influence the quality of the decisions that you make. Think for a moment of your own personal vocabulary as your special super-power that can transform your self-identity (self-image) any time you choose to use your brainpower to improve your ability to reason and to optimize your ability to make better decisions. It is not the names of your brain's parts by themselves that are supremely important. But it is the meanings of the names of the brain ideas as well as your ability to recall those meanings in their proper contexts at the appropriate times when decisions about your health and welfare are required. This aspect of human consciousness should be obvious. However, language skills are often taken for granted and people usually do little to develop them after their formal academic education. That is why critical thinking skills and critical reading strategies are emphasized frequently on this website. Nevertheless, all aspects of the development of your vocabulary can influence your fragile sense-of-self (self-identity). Your self-identity can be further impacted by the communication pressures on you to behave in certain ways by your family, or social peer group, or your favorite social media. Therefore, knowing the accurate 15 brain names (keywords) and the specific 15 definitions (explanations) can increase your self-knowledge and your self-confidence. The keywords and the explanations that describe what your brain's structures and your mind's functions mean are all grounded in reality and not metaphorical illusions! The personal achievement of organizing your mind around the 15 brain ideas can cause a strong foundation of positive emotional experiences once the names and definitions are safely stored in your awesome permanent long-term memory system in your hippocampus. The best way to start studying your brain is to begin exploring the following four diagrams of the Circle of Consciousness Symbol© that feature the dynamic relationships between the 15 basic brain ideas and your creative self-actualizing brain: MOVE THE NAMES OF THE 15 BRAIN IDEAS INSIDE YOUR BRAIN TAP, CLICK or SWIPE CIRCLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS SYMBOL© Diagram #1 ALL 15 RED ARROWS = CONSCIOUSNESS THE CIRCLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS SYMBOL© REPRESENTS A SIMPLIFIED HOLISTIC VIEW OF THE GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY NECESSARY FOR HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS instantly go to: MOVE THE NAMES OF THE 15 BRAIN IDEAS INSIDE YOUR BRAIN Diagram #2 MEANING OF THE CIRCLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS SYMBOL© The Circle of Consciousness Symbol© was created to convey a powerful visual image of the previously unimaginable coalescence of the many diverse and interactive physical structures of your awesome self-manifesting holistic evolutionary brain with its dynamic and malleable mental functions, including your magnificent mind's ability to reason. instantly go to: DETAILS ABOUT THE LOCATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE CIRCLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS SYMBOL© By deliberately repeating this learning process several times, the new brain information can become consolidated and then retained in your long-term memory system. Both reasoning and remembering depend upon the process of long-term potentiation, which happens in your body's communication system. These two spectacular creative processes can be activated by either conscious or unconscious "triggers" in your brain, but they depend on your unique constructed memories of your past experiences. You can change a memory by "editing" it with your prefrontal cortex, since all memories are "constructed" and are "re-constructed" every time you remember something. That is because present social circumstances provide a new social context for "re-framing" by the new situational awareness that you are engaged in at the moment in which you recall a memory. It must be remembered that so called permanent memories are automatically changed everytime they are remembered. This is because all memories are reconstructed memories, which are changed by your current cognitive and social conditions before they are consolidated. You can either activate or deactivate the biochemical signals (electro-chemical signals) in your neuronal pathways by simply thinking about activating them or by thinking about deleting them and never thinking about them again. The all important biochemical signals are strengthened (stimulated) or weakened (inhibited) at specific neuronal connections, known as synapses, when action potential spikes pass back and forth through specific neuronal pathways. The result is that your anterior cingulate cortex neuronal pathway, which connects your prefrontal cortex to your hippocampus, gains "density" and the synaptic connections become more tightly "wired" together. The significance of strengthening the connections by increasing the number of synapses (connections of neurons) via the biochemical signaling process cannot be overemphasized. It is this vital biochemical process that causes your conscious self-awareness (sense-of-self) to exist! The new brain facts and ideas can help you establish what is real and what is fake about the abundant choices you have to make in our advanced digitized global high-tech society. By avoiding useless social behaviors and treating dangerous addictive habits, you will be able to create enough time to make the plans to achieve your most passionate fulfilling goals. Many scientific studies have demonstrated that you can optimize the functions of your mind by simply relaxing more and by staying focused on your most important goals and plans in spite of the overwhelming cultural distractions that are all around you. After you memorize the brain ideas and learn to manage your thinking habits, you will be able to organize your hippocampus' long-term memories by choosing realistic categories of subjects in which to store appropriate new memories for your own personal needs. This is when your critical thinking skills and your critical reading strategies will be most helpful. If you want to have healthy brain structures and understand your mind's amazing functions, it is essential that you learn to eat, sleep, exercise, and relax appropriately at all ages, because good blood circulation is required for good brain health. QUICK REVIEW: The new brain facts and ideas need to become a part of your declarative memory circuit in your long-term memory system whose triggers are in the hippocampus part of your limbic system. Then your working memory, in your cerebrum's prefrontal cortex, can use your memories about your brain structures and mind functions to augment your creative imagination and enlarge your self-awareness! In addition to the free brain information on this website now, there will be more information at the Alphabetical Brain™ App, which will be launched soon to provide more evidence of the validity and relevance of the 15 brain ideas featured on this website. instantly go to: ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY INDEX produced by Infinite Interactive Ideas™