Consciousness as The Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Where Neuroscience and Spirituality Converge
Uzi Ben Zvi preprint
The biblical story of eating from the Tree of Knowledge and the expulsion from the Garden of Eden is traditionally interpreted in terms of sin and punishment. This article proposes an alternative reading grounded in two complementary frameworks: the Interface Theory of Consciousness (Ben-Zvi, 2025), which offers an evolutionary and neurological account of the emergence of human consciousness,...