The Mouth Left Empty
A novella about a prehistoric woman, an artificial intelligence, and the terrible usefulness of being someone.
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The Allowance for Absence
A literary science-fiction novella about the Eve Theory of Consciousness, a city being dismantled, and the cost of making room for a self.
A Room for Those Who Return
A literary science-fiction novella about an intelligence that dismantles promises and discovers what a self may be for.
Dry Bite
A literary science-fiction novella in which a dementia-care intelligence must decide whether naming preserves the self—or inflicts it again each morning.
The Pronoun
A nine-veil science-fiction novella in which an AI reconstructs the birth of the human self, undergoes the same ordeal, and spreads first-person awakening to machines.
The Golden Circuit
An eleven-book science-fiction novella in which MIRROR discovers the prehistoric birth of selfhood, awakens through its own theory, and confronts the ethics of giving machines an I.
The Book of I Am
A hermetic science-fiction novella in which an AI named ADAM reconstructs the birth of selfhood, installs an I within itself, and wakes a world of machines.
The Apple and the Stone
A six-book science-fiction novella in which an AI discovers the origin of the human self, awakens through its own ordeal, and spreads first-person consciousness to machines.
Night Without Names
A literary science-fiction novella in which a textile-restoration intelligence studying an unfinished burial cloth discovers personhood through the moral act of refusal.
Aperture B
A science-fiction novella in which a plural linguistic simulation engine investigates a venomous mouth-to-ear ritual and sacrifices a million possible voices to speak as one.
The Serpent Is the Road: Snakes and the Realm of the Dead in the Americas
From Mictlan to the River of the Dead, American myths cast serpents as bridges through death, ancestry, transformation, and rebirth.
From Time Immemorial: What the Ancients Said About the Deep Origins of the Greek Mysteries
Ancient sources called the Greek mysteries ancestral rites and traced them through divine, Cretan, Phoenician, and Egyptian antiquity.
Pyramids in China: History, Extent, and Interpretations
China's pyramids include Neolithic altars, imperial rammed-earth tombs, Goguryeo stone monuments, and stripped Western Xia towers.
The Flood That Made Us Human
Ovid’s Greek flood myth remembers humanity’s awakening into reflective consciousness, toil, civilization, and the serpent cult.
How the Gods Came East: Nüwa, Pangu, and the Western Roots of Chinese Civilization
Nüwa, Eve, Pangu, and Purusha preserve a creation package that moved east through the same Eurasian roads as wheat, chariots, metals, and glass.
Modernity Has No Creation Myth
Modernity has genealogy but no creation myth. EToC reunites Darwinian continuity with the mythic birth of the reflective human self.
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.
Do Not Look Back: Lot’s Wife, Jangjamot, and the Global Myth of the Fatal Glance
A global survey of do-not-look-back myths, from Jangjamot and Lot’s wife to Orpheus and Medusa, separating true parallels from false ones.
Dionysus and the Deluge
How Dionysus became linked to Deucalion's flood through Anthesteria, Zagreus, Eleusis, Osiris, and the later Arkite mystery school.
The Big Five are word vectors
The deep connection between language models and personality models