Embryo Selection and Our Stone-Age Psychology
Our minds evolved for a world that no longer exists. Embryo selection offers a way forward.
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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.
Where Did Dragons Come From? Fifteen Theories Put to the Test
Fifteen dragon-origin theories—from giant snakes and ritual dances to rainbows, fossils, and predator fear—tested against their sources.
The Dead Songs We Still Sing
Ritual language survives after meaning dies: bullroarers, hook-swinging, magic spells, and songs sung long after words go dark.
Cybele — Rhea’s Whirling Voice and the Birth of Civilized Life
How the Mother of the Gods, her roaring rhombos, and a dying youth became the soundtrack and syllabus of Greek, Phrygian, and Roman civilization.
The Death and Rebirth of Dionysus: Every Extant Ancient Version
Every extant ancient version of the Dionysus death and rebirth myth, translated and compared from Onomacritus to Nonnus.
Every Extant Death-and-Rebirth Text of Dionysus
A sourcebook of ancient texts for the Dionysus death and rebirth myth, from Zagreus sparagmos to the twice-born Semele tradition.
The Dying Brain: Physiology, NDEs, and What Animals Can (and Can’t) Tell Us
A source-heavy deep dive into dying-brain physiology, terminal EEG phenomena, near-death experiences, and what animal models can and cannot imply.
When Trees Lie: Selection, Admixture, and the Myth of a Single Ancestry
How natural selection and admixture distort phylogenetic trees, why human genomes are mosaics, and what to use instead.
When Consciousness Is Under Selection: How Recent Cognition Selection Would Warp Human History Models
A selection-aware re-read of human population trees and divergence times if cognition faced strong selection in the last 50,000 years.
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?