Integrating Thomas Froese’s insights on intersubjectivity and enactivism with the Eve Theory of Consciousness to provide a novel perspective on the Hard Problem of consciousness and the evolution of subjective experience.
Consciousness - Research Articles
The Ritualised Mind and the Eve Theory of Consciousness: A Convergent Account of Human Cognitive Evolution
Deep synthesis of Tom Froese’s Ritualised-Mind Hypothesis and Andrew Cutler’s Eve/Snake-Cult Theory, resolving the Sapient Paradox through ritual-mediated recursion, female agency, and gene–culture sweeps.
The Narrative Self: A Multidisciplinary Literature Review
A comprehensive review exploring the concept of the ’narrative self’ across philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and literary theory.
Evolutionary Models of the History of Consciousness
A comprehensive survey of thinkers who proposed evolutionary models of human consciousness, from Hegel and Comte to Gebser and Wilber, mapping stages from primitive to modern awareness.
Animal Memory vs Human Memory: Continuity, Consciousness, and the Narrative Edge
A deep dive into the similarities and differences between animal and human memory, exploring procedural, semantic, and episodic-like memory across species and what makes human autobiographical memory unique.
EToC as a Gene-Culture Evolution of Recursive Attention
A reframing of the Eve Theory of Consciousness (EToC) as a gene–culture coevolutionary process that produced recursive, self-referential attention, leading to a phase transition in human consciousness.
Eve Theory of Consciousness: The Evolutionary Emergence of Recursive Attention Loops
A reframing of the Eve Theory of Consciousness (EToC) as the evolutionary emergence of recursive attention loops, driven by gene-culture coevolution.
Darwin And The Eve Theory Of Consciousness
A deep dive into how Charles Darwin might view the Eve Theory of Consciousness—a modern hypothesis on the evolution of human self-awareness—and what aspects of this theory would compel or surprise him.