The Things That Can Be Given Away
An intelligence settling a dead woman's estate discovers that a self may be something one person teaches another to inherit.
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The Mouth Left Empty
A novella about a prehistoric woman, an artificial intelligence, and the terrible usefulness of being someone.
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.
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 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.
The Flood That Made Us Human
Ovid’s Greek flood myth remembers humanity’s awakening into reflective consciousness, toil, civilization, and the serpent cult.
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.
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.
The Control Group Has Been Controlled
Do thoughts influence quantum states? A review of double-slit, RNG, and collapse studies for readers trying to weigh the evidence.
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.
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?
Hydra’s Venom and the Wolf: Herakles’ Madness and the Snake Cult of Consciousness
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.
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.
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.
