Eve, the Serpent & the Logos — From Göbekli Tepe to John 1
From Eden through John’s Logos and Gnostic counter-myths to global ‘hanged-god’ rites, this essay reconstructs how reflexive consciousness emerged, iterated, and finally theorised itself.
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The Snake Cult of Consciousness vs. McKenna’s Stoned Ape Theory
An exploration of two theories on the origins of human consciousness: the Snake Cult/Eve Theory (snake venom) versus the Stoned Ape Theory (psilocybin mushrooms).
The Sapient Paradox: A Brief Introduction
A concise overview of the Sapient Paradox – the puzzling gap between when anatomically modern humans appeared and when behaviorally modern traits (like art, complex tools, symbolism) emerged.
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 …
From Ritual to Recursion: Integrating Froese’s Ritualised-Mind Hypothesis with the Eve Theory of Consciousness
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 …
Eve Theory of Consciousness: Solving the Wallace Problem of Human Cognition
A comprehensive, evidence-driven defence of the Eve Theory as the only evolutionary route to recursive self-awareness and language (i.e. the Wallace Problem).
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 …
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 …
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 …