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Reproductive Variance, Mate Selection, and Modern Digital Dating Environments

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Psychology • Evolutionary Theory • Digital Culture • Theological Anthropology Reproductive Variance, Mate Selection, and Modern Digital Dating Environments A Case Study Analysis Sean Keith Gray Interdisciplinary Research Essay Research Integrity Note The observational pattern examined in this paper is treated as a case-generated hypothesis , not as an established population-level fact. The repeated appearance of a category of people on a dating platform cannot, by itself, establish the prevalence of that category in the wider population. Platform participation, recommendation systems, personal filters, selective attention, and memory all intervene between population reality and subjective experience. Abstract Human reproduction is arithmetically symmetrical at the level of births because each ordinary bio...
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Who Can Rule the Self? Sacred Centers, Descent, Sovereignty, and the Gospel from Ancient Cosmology to Modern Cinema

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Who Can Rule the Self? Sacred Centers, Descent, Sovereignty, and the Gospel from Ancient Cosmology to Modern Cinema By Sean Keith Gray Abstract Across civilizations separated by geography, language, and historical circumstance, human beings have repeatedly represented order through a remarkably durable symbolic vocabulary: the center and the four quarters; heaven, the inhabited middle realm, and the world below; sacred mountains and artificial mountains; trees, pillars, towers, gates, bridges, temples, and roads; kings who claim universal sovereignty; prophets and travelers who cross boundaries; descents into seas, caves, tombs, Hades, or hell; and renewed worlds that follow catastrophe. These recurrences do not establish a single hidden historical tradition. They may arise variously through cultural transmission, common human experience, convergent symbolism, and what C. G. Jung called archetypal forms of representation. Modern “synchromysticism,” ...
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