I’d like to add a third postulate to Galton’s Lexical Hypothesis:

“The key to the interpretation of so many still hermetic motifs […] is available to us, immediately accessible, in myths and tales still alive.” Levi-Strauss

In today’s episode, I’m joined by David Stillwell, a professor of computational social science at the University of Cambridge, who uses big data to understand psychology.

It has been a good year here on Vectors of Mind. The Eve Theory of Consciousness has always been aspirational. Pedantically, it’s more of a hypothesis—particularly versions 1 and 2. However, with the …

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” -Carl Jung

Depicted above are several libation cups made in the image of the Ancient Egyptian god Bes. The burgeoning field of archeo-botany allows us to investigate what was consumed from such ritual jugs by an…

Note: I wrote this piece in 2023 for a now-defunct Substack specializing in embryo selection. It appears below unedited.

To my knowledge, no one has argued that women evolved recursion before men. This seems like low-hanging fruit, given it’s the oldest story in the book. Indigenous cultures worldwide have myths of a pr…

“When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was wi…

In this post, I’d like to show that societies like Australian Aboriginals and the Navajo are similar in ways that require cultural diffusion. That is, central elements of their culture hail back to th…