Meditations on mind, myth, and evolution. Cast the scales from your eyes!
I’m Andrew Cutler, a Machine Learning engineer researching human origins. My work connects psychology, comparative mythology, and AI to trace how recursive self-awareness evolved. Snakecult.net is a place for me to put lightly-edited AI-generated essays that explore niche questions (usually produced with OpenAI’s Deep Research or latest reasoning model).
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A technical survey of why Sumerian remains unclassified, what it resembles typologically, and how contact, substratum, and scribal transmission shape the evidence.
A first-principles thought experiment: if natural selection directly targeted language, theory of mind, and self-reflectivity in the last 50k years, what would our models predict?
A deep dive for Dennett/Jaynes readers arguing Eve Theory of Consciousness supplies the concrete gene–culture origin story Dennett’s narrative self model leaves open.
A deep dive connecting Ken Wilber’s Up from Eden to the Eve Theory of Consciousness (EToC), proposing a mechanism and timeline for ego-birth via recursion and self-domestication.
A deep dive into how EToC provides the specific historical and mechanical ‘software update’ that Dennett’s narrative self theory requires but leaves undefined.
An expert-friendly introduction to dual inheritance theory that argues the Eve Theory of Consciousness is a stronger gene–culture account of how humans became psychologically modern.
A site-by-site, table-heavy guide to Paleolithic technologies and cultural signals across North & South America, mapped to Old World lithic “modes” and traditions.
A critical commentary on ancient southern African genomes, what they show about deep human structure, and what they don’t settle about cognition.
Across mythologies, serpent gods and snake rituals mark thresholds of knowledge, law, and awakening, making the serpent a recurring symbol of consciousness-bestowing power.
How neurotoxic snakebites, primate evolution, and mythic imagination conspired to turn a small-brained reptile into a global symbol of wisdom and awakening.