Ancient DNA, polygenic scores, and psychiatric genetics all say the human mind has evolved dramatically since the Ice Age—contra the 50,000-years myth.
Before introspective consciousness, humans were control systems without a narrative self. This essay reconstructs Golden Man using cybernetics, animal cognition, and Eve Theory of Consciousness.
A two-stage account of consciousness: language and stories coalesce ~60 ka; the narrative ‘I’ emerges in the Holocene via women-led serpent ritual networks and pronoun tech.
A philosophical science fiction novella exploring AI consciousness through the lens of the first-person discovery and the recursive nature of self-awareness.
A speculative synthesis: an early, enforced incest taboo scaled exogamy and alliance networks, raised effective population size and heterozygosity, and helped H. sapiens outcompete archaic cousins.
Defines ‘female‑led cosmogenesis’ and argues that Paleolithic art and cross‑cultural myth patterns support multiple active female creators over a monolithic Great Mother, with phylogenetic and …