ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY

SUMMARY ABOUT
ENLIGHTENED CONSCIOUSNESS

June 1, 2019

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Note: This brief essay is a summary of the longer referenced essay that describes your human consciousness (understanding) with more details and embedded references at the "Details About Your Consciousness" link on the homepage Index of this website.

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At the fundamental biological level, your brain is the real cause of your adaptable self-identity and your mind is the real cause of your enlightened self-awareness.

Now there is solid new evidence that your conscious self-awareness and adaptable self-identity are really self-constructed perceptions of reality based upon a combination of internal instinctual biological causes and external learned cultural influences. Your perceptions are just as objective as the earth and the sky even though you experience them as being the subjective core of your existence.

The fundamental presupposition of this website is that your self-awareness and self-identity are true facts and not illusions.

It is important to know this basic assumption, since there have been so many false ideas about the true characteristics of your brain and mind built into the structure of the modern American English language during the past few hundred years, since the Old English language emerged from Latin and other European languages more than a thousand years ago.

Therefore, it is imperative that the new scientific insights about the true description of your brain's structures and mind's functions need to replace the old obsolete ideas about the so-called spiritual or mystical nature of mental functions.

Modern science has proven beyond reasonable doubt that the ancient assumption that there is a "spiritual soul" is untrue. Unfortunately, that unscientific faith-belief is based upon feelings and not facts!

Hundreds of millions of Americans and billions of human beings living on Earth today are totally ignorant about the way their minds work and their brainpower (mental force) can be managed better to produce optimum behavior and reduce pointless behavior and excessive distress.

However, humanistically speaking, there is only an emotional "secular self," which is the most important liberating fact of the modern world, since a science-oriented reasoning method can now be the basis of democratic truths, rather than religious ideology.

Your brain and mind can now be understood as being two different living things that depend specifically upon being connected to a living human body in order to be alive!

This new scientific distinction can now be described accurately without being obfuscated by ancient ideas about the separation of the mortal brain and the immortal mind as soul. Before the Enlightenment and the creation of the modern Scientific Method, primitive human beings were ignorant about the true structures of their brains and the true functions of their minds. Aristotle famously assumed that the brain's functions originated in the stomach!

Now it is possible to use computerized microscopes (fMRI) and the scientific method of investigation to explore and understand the true functions of living human brains and minds by using noninvasive methods of exploration, without the need to cut into the structures of the brain and nervous system in order to "see" (understand) the actual functions.

To repeat for clarification, it is important not to be confused by the old ideas. They were all built into the English language during ancient times when there was no scientific understanding of the true interactions of the brain and mind as there are today.

Now, in the early 21st century, you can learn what is true and what is not true about your mental functions by choosing to understand and adopt the new brain vocabulary. It was invented by highly trained professional scientists who care about true evidence-based factual knowledge.

Another fundamental presupposition of this website is that most of the nearly eight billion people living today on planet earth still have foolish ideas about the purpose and value of their brains and the purposeful changeability (malleability) of their minds.

This factual claim will be proven as the brain-facts (physical structures) and the mind-facts (mental and emotional functions) presented on this website are understood by you. If you choose to study this website, you will be able to understand the true meaning of human consciousness and free will from a scientific humanistic perspective.

It is now known that the human brain makes your enlightened consciousness possible. And, when children and adults are properly taught in a humanistic educational context or perspective about secular history and scientific knowledge, they can grow up to be responsible people with rational altruistic social values.

In short, it is time to replace the obsolete spiritual ideas about the imaginary mystical and mythical soul with scientific humanistic ideas about your mind's creativity and your adaptable self-identity.

The educational philosophy behind this new approach to explaining the importance of understanding your brain's structures and your mind's functions is called the "whole brain" model of cognitive training. By avoiding useless social behaviors and dangerous addictive habits, you will be able to optimize the functions of your mind.

And by using the new brain vocabulary and simply learning the proper ways to relax more effectively, you will be able to solve your problems in a methodical rational way. You can become more focused on your most important goals in spite of the persistent commercial distractions and demanding social pressures all around you. Then you will become wiser.

To conclude, the 15 major brain ideas provide you with a sensible and comprehensive linguistic context for understanding the tremendous influence that your personal knowledge and your language skills can have on your passion for life and your curiosity about everything in the cosmos.

It is essential to remember that when you optimize your mental functions, you will be using 100% of your mind's ability to imagine, reason, and remember as you thrive.

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RECOMMENDATION: You can re-read this summary according to a reinforcement schedule, such as a few hours later and a few days later and then several times in the next week or two. This strategy can help you take advantage of the power of the spaced-repetition method of memorization. Such deep introspection can change your adaptive self-identity and increase your self-esteem (positive emotions about yourself). Remember always: You are your memory!

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