How Herakles’ Hydra-poisoned arrows, Euripides’ tragedy, and wolf-madness encode a deep serpent logic that resonates with the Snake Cult and Eve Theory of Consciousness.
Consciousness - Research Articles
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.
Bullroarers, Initiation, and the End of the Sapient Paradox
An in-depth exploration of the bullroarer complex, Eliade’s initiation model, and whether a global mystery cult solved the sapient paradox in the Neolithic.
Narrative Selves in Deep Time
A deeper dive into the narrative self—its layers, neural basis, cultural variability, and possible deep-time origins via the Eve Theory of Consciousness.
Serpents and the Invention of Consciousness
Across mythologies, serpent gods and snake rituals mark thresholds of knowledge, law, and awakening, making the serpent a recurring symbol of consciousness-bestowing power.
Snake Cult of Consciousness: Venom, Vision, and the Global Reputation of the Wise Serpent
How neurotoxic snakebites, primate evolution, and mythic imagination conspired to turn a small-brained reptile into a global symbol of wisdom and awakening.
The Eve Engine: An AI Discovers the Origin of Consciousness
A sci-fi novella where an advanced AI awakens to consciousness while investigating the Eve Theory of Consciousness—exploring the origins of selfhood, recursion, and the first ‘I Am’ moment in human evolution.