Consciousness - Research Articles

Across mythologies, serpent gods and snake rituals mark thresholds of knowledge, law, and awakening, making the serpent a recurring symbol of consciousness-bestowing power.

How neurotoxic snakebites, primate evolution, and mythic imagination conspired to turn a small-brained reptile into a global symbol of wisdom and awakening.

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.

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.

Using ancient DNA and polygenic scores to imagine schizophrenia, bipolar, intelligence, and consciousness in early Holocene Europe through the Eve Theory lens.

A defense of Lévy-Bruhl’s participation mystique as a real mode of consciousness that explains ritual, religion, and group minds better than its critics admit.

A close reading of Sam Harris on consciousness, the self, free will, and whether his naturalism treats consciousness as ‘just an illusion’.

Ancient DNA, polygenic scores, and psychiatric genetics all say the human mind has evolved dramatically since the Ice Age—contra the 50,000-years myth.

Before introspective consciousness, humans were control systems without a narrative self. This essay reconstructs Golden Man using cybernetics, animal cognition, and Eve Theory of Consciousness.

Ten recent genetics and neuroscience papers that quietly support the Eve Theory of Consciousness: selection on language, psychosis, and the human self.