How the Neurogram Mind Was Born

In the Kurmanji Kurdish language, each linguistic personality in conversation is represented by two distinct first-person pronouns. Each of these pronouns possesses its own unique features and expressive capabilities. For example, the first-person singular is not represented by just one form of "I," but by two: what I call the First Self and the Second Self.

When I set out to compare these two pronouns with Freud’s classical psychoanalytic personalities—specifically the Id and the Ego—I noticed something remarkable: these pronouns are governed by highly specific and complex grammatical rules that grant them distinct cognitive and functional properties. Each pronoun seems to operate with a different sense of time, emotion, and action, suggesting an underlying structure that is both linguistic and psychological.

This discovery led me to investigate the neural basis of these functions. I began exploring how these grammatical patterns and pronoun structures are processed in the brain, and which regions are involved in coordinating them. Eventually, this path of inquiry guided me toward identifying the neurotransmitters that may play a role in these dynamic linguistic-cognitive interactions.

This is how the Neurogram Mind theory emerged: at the intersection of language, psychology, and neuroscience—a new model to understand how our minds speak, think, and perceive the self through grammar.

Authored by Enzar Sharif Salih