Publisher's Synopsis
The purpose of this text is to reveal that an exact, central science of emotions exists based on a recently designed periodic table of the emotional elements that classifies all known emotions into 25 columns that simulate 25 cortical columns; mapping the general organized operational architecture. Titled the "Columnar Listing for Understanding Emotions" (CLUE)-brain evolves as a higher order of thinking; a progressive behavior educational system to achieve total psychological balance. The CLUE maps the cyclic functional connectivity between 17-25 cortical columns of 17-25 elemental core-actions that evolve(d) 17-25 elemental core-emotions. With children/ancestors acquiring self-consciousness, 17 core-emotions expand(ed) to 25. Serving all ages, this text includes chapters 1-3 for youngsters, chapters 4-13 for students/adults, and chapters 14-15 for research scientists. Both the CLUE abstract (248 words), and manuscript (15,375 words) are included within chapters 14-15. The CLUE-brain reveals the phylogenetic evolution of mankind's emotions, analyzes the evolution of emotion's development through one's life-course, and teaches the unknown study of core-actions/core-emotions, as single units of emotional consciousness that manifest, non-stop our entire life; repeating every moment-to-moment, in our 4-step, core-emotions sequence of: 1. Any CLUE "core-emotion" (CE), 2. Sympathetic CE joy-sadness, 3. CE Self-esteem as pride/power-worthless/powerless, and, 4. CE harmony. This 4-step CE sequence evolved from 1. Any CLUE core-action, 2. Pleasure-pain, 3. Self-preservation, and 4. Homeostasis. In addition, this secret 4-step core-sequence, contains three basic, time-relevant/attention-contingent awakened processes: here-and-now, mechanical attention in "typical evolving cycles," captured attention in "anticipatory typical evolving cycles," and directed attention by conscious will when "upgrading typical evolving cycles." By knowing the 25 core-emotions, the 4-step sequence, and the three types of cycles; any knowledgeable third grader with a CLUE chart, can teach any psychology major the secrets of human behavior; like a child showing Mendeleev's periodic table to Isaac Newton to describe water as H2O. The CLUE reveals 14 Animalia notochord-actions evolved into 14 Animalia core-emotions; 15 core-emotions in Old Mammalia, 16 in Neo Mammalia, 17 by primates, and, 17-25 core-emotions in ancient Homo, when captured attention to one's "self," sparked self-consciousness. For children, the CLUE reveals it takes years to acquire self-consciousness by an accumulative process; captured attention of one's "self" to eight CLUE core-emotions which initiate cognition to discern interior/exterior considerations. The best outcomes to all our actions, are initiated by the proper choice of our step-1 core-emotions within our 4-step core-sequences. The CLUE chart with the core-emotions listed, provides the precise answers in simple terms. At last, kids can fix kids. If scientific terms are needed; then: action potentials by cognitive self-regulated attention-skills, select "central pattern generators" to "pattern-predict" outcomes that modulate attention into attention-trains, creating 25 adaptive core-actions with completed sets of malleable factors, per confluent CLUE column, ameliorating every valence of negative emotions behavior via self-regulation or intervention, so positive valences of unit core-emotion outcomes at harmony, expand core-sequence harmony within subsequent complex behaviors. From top-down and bottom-up: an exact, central, neural science of emotions exists to define one unit core-emotional consciousness, measure emotions value, duplicate research, interface AI with altruism, and provide a robust IES emotions-education system including all malleable factors for intervention's testing, with CLUE on 12 variant Excel spreadsheets for student observation and analysis in alignment with states longitudinal data proce
