The Bullroarer: a history of man’s most sacred ritual object
Mystery cults worldwide say the instrument is the voice of god, once belonged to women, was stolen by men, and use it to turn boys into men through a process of death and rebirth
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392 Articles
Review: Supernatural Selection
How religion evolved
Eve Theory of Consciousness: The Evolutionary Emergence of Recursive Attention Loops
A reframing of the Eve Theory of Consciousness (EToC) as the evolutionary emergence of recursive attention loops, driven by gene-culture coevolution.
EToC as a Gene-Culture Evolution of Recursive Attention
A reframing of the Eve Theory of Consciousness (EToC) as a gene–culture coevolutionary process that produced recursive, self-referential attention, leading to a phase transition in human consciousness.
Darwin And The Eve Theory Of Consciousness
A deep dive into how Charles Darwin might view the Eve Theory of Consciousness—a modern hypothesis on the evolution of human self-awareness—and what aspects of this theory would compel or surprise him.
How to prompt chatGPT
Some advice from a prompting wizard
July Subscriber Post
Help me make a FAQ
Memetic Eve Solves the Sapient Paradox
On leaving the uncanney cultural valley of the Stone Age
The Doomsday Debate
Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the bots
Snake Cult (LessOnline presentation)
An update on the Snake Cult in a new format
Secrets of the Snake King
The snake detection hypothesis vs an Armenian folktale
Archeologists vs The Bible
Why connecting Genesis and the Symbolic Revolution is professionally dangerous
Andreas Lommel and the squatters
Addendum to Archeologists vs Ancient Aliens
May Subscriber Post
Links, updates, Bonferroni corrections
Recap of user polls
What do Vectors of Mind readers think?
Archeologists vs Ancient Aliens
Was Gobekli Tepe built by Australian Aboriginals? No but there may be a connection.
March Subscriber Post
Ancient DNA, snake dances, and boomerangs
Herakles, Adam, and Krishna were initiated in the snake cult at Göbekli Tepe
Though the serpent bit his heel, he crushed it's skull
Eve Theory of Consciousness v3.0
How humans evolved a soul
Nathaniel Eliot (#6)
Reader feedback, animal consciousness
