ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY WEBSITE INTRODUCTION TO THE ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY WEBSITE WHAT IS THE OBJECTIVE OF THE ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY WEBSITE? The quickest way to explore your amazing brain and activate your brainpower is to study your brain's major parts and main functions in a systematic scientific way using the Alphabetical Brain™ Vocabulary. This website is designed to make scientific knowledge about the human brain accessible to as many people as possible regardless of social class, income status, or educational level. It is assumed that it takes the knowledge of the definitions of at least 100 words and 100 corresponding brain images to understand the complexity of human brains. This knowledge can provide you with a comprehensive modern rational way to understand the many complicated feedback functions and intricate interactive systems that make your brain so profoundly important. By understanding this curated sequence of 100 brain ideas, you will also be learning many other brain-related words. The purpose of the additional technical words related to your brain and behavior is to explain the psychosocial and biological implications of the new brain discoveries. The new brain vocabulary can help you distinguish relevant objective scientific information from subjective historical myths, fallacies, and superstitions about brain functions. The ultimate practical purpose of the new brain vocabulary is to give you the verbal tools to visualize exactly what happens inside your brain when you think, feel, move, plan, and achieve your goals or deal with conflict, anger, fear, frustration, boredom, or apathy. The 100 essential brain ideas are all based on modern scientific research that has revealed the correct ingredients of the most important brain functions that make human consciousness and self-awareness possible. The awesome discovery of how human brains perceive meaning through thinking is the cornerstone of all modern scientific brain research. This ingenious theory about human cognition is fully documented in dozens of recently published books and professional journal articles that are linked to the brain flash cards. To summarize: the fundamental objective of this website is to assist you in adding meaning and happiness to your life through a deeper understanding of modern brain science. WHAT DOES THE ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ SYMBOL MEAN? The Alphabetical Brain™ Logo symbolizes the process of using the new brain vocabulary to create a modern mindfulness attitude and a rational humanistic value system. The Alphabetical Brain™ Symbol represents the unique relationship between your brain, which contains the most complex organic matter in the universe, and the English language, which contains the most complex system of interactive words and grammatical rules of any modern universal language, since it incorporates the best ideas from all cultures. This fundamental intimate connection of your physical brain tissue and your cultural brain vocabulary produces the unique person that you are and it gives you free will at the same time. By knowing this basic scientific truth, which is symbolized by the Alphabetical Brain™ Logo, you can live the most fulfilling and most meaningful humanistic life that you can imagine. Since your mind is what your brain does, the purpose of the Alphabetical Brain™ Vocabulary is to explain what the two words "mind" and "brain" mean now in the scientific and technological context of the 21st century. By paying close attention to the language that you use, and by understanding the syntax of your language as well as the semantics of your self-talk, you will be able to understand the story of how humanity has been evolving for hundreds of thousands of years. To summarize: The Alphabetical Brain™ Logo symbolizes how evolution has produced your own unique human intelligence and ability to experience self-awareness and free will in order to reproduce (to genetically pass on your DNA sexually) and to survive (to socially pass on your ideas through your language skills). WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE HUMANIST FAMILY BRAIN SURVEY? The purpose of the Humanist Family Brain Survey is to focus your attention on the meanings of the 100 fundamental brain ideas in the educational context of the easiest way to learn about them and to remember them. The best systematic learning technique is known as the spaced repetition method of memorizing or remembering. The Brain Survey involves a free online sample of 15 brain flash cards that explain 15 very important parts of human brains and their functions in a systematic and instantly accessible way. Also you will be able to see the names of 85 additional essential brain ideas that are needed to understand how you can thrive in our complicated stress-filled digitized global world. A free PowerPoint Slide Show provides a quick automated preview of the 15 brain flash cards for the purpose of encouraging you to buy the complete sequence of all 100 brain flash cards when they are ready to launch as an inexpensive app by July 4th. After the results of the Brain Survey have been analyzed, there will be a downloadable online version of all 100 brain flash cards including a Study Guide and a printed deck version of the 100 brain flash cards for sale at the Alphabetical Brain™ App. You will be able to access the 100 brain ideas in two digitized formats: one optimized for computers (wide screens) and one for mobile devices (narrow screens). To summarize: The Humanist Family Brain Survey requests constructive feedback concerning the effectiveness of the Alphabetical Brain™ Vocabulary from Humanists who participate in the free Humanist Family Brain Survey that will be available soon. WHAT IS THE MOST EFFICIENT WAY TO LEARN THE NEW BRAIN IDEAS? You can train your brain by using the spaced repetition method of memorizing the first 15 free brain flash cards in the sample. The Study Guide explains the memory technique and recommends a learning procedure that enhances long-term memory consolidation. The memory boosters include check lists to trigger your memory resources. Also preset time schedules for studying the brain vocabulary words and their acronyms, which involve repeated exposures to the brain vocabulary over time, can be used to speed memorization of the basic brain ideas. You will be able to remember the new brain ideas in your "autobiographical memory," which is a type of semantic memory. Also your working memory allows you to remember factual ideas in your long-term memory as declarative statements rather than separate words. You can begin using the sample of 15 free brain flash cards right now and personalize the Brain Survey forms by adapting them to your own learning preferences. To summarize: Details about the purpose and the meaning of this Alphabetical Brain™ website are explained in the Introduction and the Study Guide links while the recommended Brain Survey Forms, which emphasize critical thinking exercises, can be used to provide feedback about the effectiveness of the educational strategies and exercises. WHY ARE THE NEW BRAIN IDEAS SO IMPORTANT FOR HUMANISTS? The new scientific brain vocabulary validates the philosophical assumptions of Humanism since it is now known that specific brain functions and systems actually cause human behavior, not mysterious supernatural forces. And learned cultural behaviors and mindsets (habits and attitudes) really cause your social (tribal) behavior. However, these biological and psychosocial "causes" also make free will possible due to the microscopic molecular electrochemical quantum systems and processes which make human consciousness and self-awareness possible. By studying this website and the dozens of scientific books about the brain, which are linked to the brain flash cards, you can transform any ignorant or stupid ideas (including false beliefs about reality that you might have learned in the past) into true smart assumptions about the objective nature of reality based upon scientific investigation. Think "science makes you smart!" With the new brain knowledge, you can use your own sensible observations about the world around you and your reasonable thoughts to control obsolete intrusive emotions that are now irrelevant and dysfunctional. By using critical thinking skills to appreciate the astonishing complexity of your brain's functions and your marvelous ability to control your habits and attitudes, you will know which brain circuits cause creative decision making and which cause anxiety and helplessness. This new understanding of brain functions is not the old scientific determinism of the past, but a new transcendent humanistic explanation that acknowledges the primary role of the "sensory self" in influencing the kind and quality of human consciousness and self-awareness during one's lifetime. To Summarize: you can reinvent yourself and change your habits and attitudes in order to improve the quality of your life and your relationships easily, if you are not addicted to dysfunctional beliefs. HOW CAN THE ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY HELP HUMANIST FAMILIES? This website can be used by Humanist families as well as individuals. It can provide you and your family with reliable knowledge about the discoveries and inventions that scientists have made during the past few hundred years which have led to the breakthroughs in brain science during the past few years. When you teach your children to appreciate the new brain vocabulary and the best way to learn it, they too will be able to use their brains better and also enrich your life in the process of communicating with them. The new brain knowledge indicates that healthy brain functioning depends upon keeping your body healthy. To repeat, to keep your brain well, you must keep your body well. A balanced approach to understanding your brain and increasing your brainpower involves exercising regularly, eating healthy foods, getting enough sleep, and challenging your brain to solve difficult problems in order to create more cognitive reserve (density and variety of neuron connections) and to increase the plasticity and neurogenesis (growth of new neurons and new connections) in your brain. Since your success in life depends upon your ability to think for yourself and wisely determine the benefits and risks of your decisions, one good way to be happier is to free your brain from excessive distress by limiting the amount of your screen time. You can learn how to control your own screen time and teach your children to control their screen time by focusing on personal goals instead of being distracted by the thousands of advertisements and unlimited shopping choices our brains are exposed to every day from TV, radio, social media, music, computers, and hand-held mobile devices. This assault on our minds by cultural media can impact the normal functions of our brains and create mental dysfunctions such as ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), dissonance, digital dementia, brain fog, and other dysfunctional mental disorders. Knowing that our precious brains can be damaged by our "hyperconnected culture" due to the constant interruptions of our thoughts and the mindless triggering of unnecessary emotions by the mass media, it is imperative that parents teach their children coping skills to deal with the hazardous excessive stress caused by the interruptions of thought. To summarize: You, as a Humanist adult or parent, can emphasize how modern science has produced the new brain ideas, which have made life much better, and how love and empathy contribute to less stressful and more fulfilling living through understanding and applying the new brain vocabulary in your life. WHAT ARE THE LASTING BENEFITS OF USING THE ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY? This online learning process can expand your imagination and provide infinite pleasure as you learn to prosper in the real world of scientific thinking about brainpower. You can learn to use your hundreds of millions of mirror neurons to empathize with others and to collaborate more successfully both in and out of your family social context. When you learn how critically important the new scientific brain vocabulary is to how you perceive the world and to what you expect out of life, it is hoped that you will be inspired to make better decisions and share your new brain knowledge with others. The good news is that you can start today to create mindful self-awareness and responsible social-awareness based upon the new brain ideas. Now is the perfect time to learn more about the new brain wisdom which defines what your mind is capable of achieving. You can integrate your rational ideas and your ethical ideals! To summarize: You can boost your brainpower right now by adding the new brain facts to your philosophy of life and your plan of action. 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