ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY HUMANIST FAMILY BRAIN STUDY SECTION 2 WHAT DOES THE ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ SYMBOL MEAN? May 6, 2016 The Alphabetical Brain™ Symbol represents the unique relationship between your brain, and the 26 letter alphabet of the universal English language. Your brain contains the most complex three pounds of organic matter in the universe and the English language alphabet contains a system of words and the rules of grammar that enable the most complex thoughts to be created by your mind. The new brain vocabulary contains 15 brain ideas consisting of hundreds of words and dozens of facts that explain how the incredibly adaptive functions of your brain can empower your free will and your creative imagination. Further, the brain vocabulary explains how you can optimize your mental force (brainpower) to achieve your unique goals based upon your humanistic values. When you learn the profound scientific truths about the evolutionary origins of your brain, you will be amazed at the mental force that you actually have because of the interactive connections between your brain's dozens of key organs and the hundreds of thousands of words in the English language. The connections are what give you the ability to think and feel and predict the most probable outcomes that your mental force can conceive and help your sensory self achieve. Your personal free will is an evolutionary bonus since the survival of humans (and proto-humans during deep history) depended upon the ability to make choices in order to adapt to changing social and environmental conditions, especially those that were threatening or hostile. The freedom to choose behavior patterns (even with the imaginary magical interventions of demons and gods and goddesses) has been a necessity for the survival of our species during the past 30-40 thousand years and for many hundreds of thousands of years prior to that, when proto-human species were evolving survival patterns at the biological level. However, it is very important to know that the emergence of human alphabets around 3,200 BC (more than 5,000 years ago in ancient Babylonia and Egypt) accompanied the increasing size of human cities and the increasing trade among diverse peoples settled around the Mediterranean Sea. In addition, the new brain ideas can help you unlearn erroneous opinions about reality, such as incorrect traditional metaphorical myths (false explanations about the meaning of history and false beliefs about human nature) or prejudices (false social class and culture stereotypes). During the Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries, the first genuine scientists (called natural philosophers) began to use experimental methods (involving microscopes and telescopes) to discover real truths about nature and the universe. And in the 19th and 20th centuries, the scientific method became the trusted experimental process for determining provisional empirical truths about the factual characteristics of nature, the universe, and also human behavior. Today, the way new discoveries about human brain functions are made is by doing research based upon humanistic scientific assumptions (secular values) that apply to all human beings in all cultures, as long as they have big brains. Therefore, when you choose to understand the relationship between your brain and your mind in a humanistic scientific context, you will be able to understand the basis of your own mental force or brainpower. Your embodied brain gives you your sense of self (self-awareness) and your creativity (adaptability), which can both grow with every new experience and every new word in your vocabulary, from a few hundred words as a young child to hundreds of thousands of words as an adult. WHY THIS MATTERS: The Alphabetical Brain™ Symbol represents the interactive connection between your organic brain structures and the new vocabulary of modern brain science as it is expressed best in the English language, which contains a system of words and rules of grammar that enable us to create the most profound thoughts with our minds. [See the BRAIN SYMBOL at the top of this page with the English language alphabet curved around the top of the image of the left hemisphere of a human brain] Printable Form WHAT DOES THE ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ SYMBOL MEAN? instantly go to: SECTION 3 WHAT IS THE GOAL OF THE HUMANIST FAMILY BRAIN SURVEY? or instantly return to: INTRODUCTION TO THE IDEA OF YOUR HUMANISTIC MENTAL FORCE or instantly return to: ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY INDEX produced by Infinite Interactive Ideas™