The Serpent in the Snuff: Cebil, Yopo, and the Animal Grammar of Vision
How cebil and yopo became linked to serpents, jaguars, and shamanic transformation across the ancient Andes and Amazon.
Research Articles
Dionysus and the Deluge
How Dionysus became linked to Deucalion's flood through Anthesteria, Zagreus, Eleusis, Osiris, and the later Arkite mystery school.
Why Eve Theory of Consciousness Surpasses Julian Jaynes
Why Eve Theory of Consciousness better explains recursive selfhood, myth, ritual, and gene–culture evolution than Julian Jaynes.
Basque as a Language Isolate: Evidence, Hypotheses, and the Limits of Genetic Classification
A technical, linguist-oriented survey of Basque’s isolate status, proposed relatives, substratum hypotheses, and what evidence would count as proof of genetic affiliation.
Sumerian as a Language Isolate: Evidence, Contact, Substrata, and the Limits of Comparison
A technical survey of why Sumerian remains unclassified, what it resembles typologically, and how contact, substratum, and scribal transmission shape the evidence.
The Last 50,000 Years: A Selectionist Thought Experiment for Consciousness
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?
Dennett’s Missing Origin Story: How EToC Updates Jaynes and Explains the Narrative Self
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.
Eve Theory of Consciousness: A Mechanism for Wilber’s Eden
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.
How Eve Theory of Consciousness Answers Dennett’s Question of the Narrative Self
A deep dive into how EToC provides the specific historical and mechanical 'software update' that Dennett's narrative self theory requires but leaves undefined.
Memetic Eve Meets Dual Inheritance: Why EToC Should Matter to Gene–Culture Coevolution
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.
