Anthropic Genesis: Six Exceptional Seed Events That Defined Civilization
Posted: November 9, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: culture, humanity, transformation Leave a commentSequel to The Olduvai Stomp and Hither and FON.
Thesis: our global civilization is the result of a small number of unexpected Human Seed Events — where one small innovation eventually became globally dominant and unifying (even as it fragmented).
ChatGPT Prompt
1. Homo erectus/sapiens
2. Natufian Agriculture
3. PIE language
4. Greek ideology
5. Christian morality
6. Nordic oaths
1. Framing the Concept
Anthropic Genesis identifies not merely moments of innovation, but the deep rewrites of human being itself—the discontinuous thresholds when Homo sapiens transformed its collective operating system.
These were not gradual cultural evolutions, but memetic speciation events: rare local experiments that became planetary defaults.
Each Genesis introduced a new grammar of existence—symbolic, agricultural, linguistic, rational, moral, contractual—so foundational that even its exceptions survive only by reinterpretation within its paradigm.
Chinese civilization, Islamic jurisprudence, and technocracy all adapt themselves to these inherited logics rather than escaping them.
This is not a list of great civilizations, but a chain of ontological mutations—the serial reinvention of what “human” means.
Read the rest of this entry »The Olduvai Stomp: How Homo Erectus Got the Beat — and Became Us
Posted: November 7, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: civilization, culture, development, empathy, humanity, unity 3 CommentsPropose rhythmic synchronization in Homo erectus as the key evolutionary inflection that enabled everything else we consider human.
ChatGPT Prompt
A student—Lucy, of course—has secretly brought the STOMP performers to the Olduvai Gorge paleoanthropology site. They pretend to accidentally find a beat, but the power of entrainment soon draws the actual scientists in, even as they slowly realize what is happening.
Act I — The Olduvai Stomp
Scene 1 – Arrival
- Setting: Olduvai Gorge, late afternoon. Wind sighs, cicadas buzz, dust glows.
- A team of scientists works quietly; Lucy arrives with four “volunteers” — STOMP performers disguised as field assistants.
- They unpack their tools innocently.
Scene 2 – The Work
- Everything is ordinary: trowels scrape stone, brushes flick dust, sieves shake grit.
- One performer drops a rock — clack–clack. Another answers — clack. A third shakes a sieve — shhh–thump–shhh–thump.
- Inside the rhythm of labor, a beat begins to breathe.
Radical Centrism 