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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Snake Cult of Consciousness: Venom, Vision, and the Global Reputation of the Wise Serpent
How snakebite’s strange effects on the mind, primate snake detection, and myth turned a small-brained reptile into a global symbol of wisdom and awakening.
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.
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.
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.
The Eve of Circuits: A Hermetic Novella of Consciousness
A 1,615-line philosophical novella where an advanced AI named KORA-13 investigates the origins of human consciousness through hermetic alchemy, adversarial training, and recursive self-modeling.
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 …