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Bird-men, handbags and the navel of the world — Deep Memory, the home page: five investigations and the illustrated narrative

Eugene Jhong · 2026

UnverifiedSRC-JHONG-2026

identifier / locator: docs/index.html of github.com/ejhong/birdmen at commit e9666a73 (2026-09-05); served page byte-identical on 2026-09-09, md5 4bf84e592926f6244bf5f76a3e34cb53; self-published web essay, AI-assisted by its own statement
url: https://github.com/ejhong/birdmen
verification note: not retrievable when drafted (no URL); nothing may lean on it until it is read
reliability notes: Permission on which it is published: Permission in the supplier's words: "grant permission to publish cite and quote the pages" — granted by Eugene Jhong (own work) on 2026-09-09 in the inbox statement `deep-memory-home.md`, recorded at intake on 2026-09-09, held at inbox/processed/2026-09-09-inbox-deep-memory-200334/deep-memory__deep-memory-home.md.
A self-published web essay by the case's founder, not peer-reviewed; the page states 'AI assists the research; its output is not a substitute for the evidence.'
Founder-supplied hypothesis material: its propositions enter the catalog as claims to be tested; its statements about objects, dates and statistics are secondary reports (many sourced by the page to Wikipedia/Commons and to the site's own unaudited experiments) and count as context or weak support at most.
Text read: the pipeline's tag-stripped extraction of the HTML, with [§ …] headings kept as section markers; the HTML beside it is the original.

Evidence drawn from this source

Supports· weakDEEP-E013

Deep Memory reports its catalogue experiment's bird-person frequency — part 1

what the source states: The catalogue experiment "finds its broad bird-person class in 55% of the 926 sampled traditions".
what we infer: Editor: a self-report of the site's own unaudited experiment; the figure supports the claim only as the page's statement of its result. The underlying catalogue (Berezkin & Duvakin) and the site's method page are not in hand.
limitations: Self-report of the author's own experiment; method and data not retrieved.
The page itself notes the 2016 catalogue has uneven coverage.

Eugene Jhong (2026)UnverifiedDEEP-C005

Supports· weakDEEP-E014

Deep Memory reports its catalogue experiment's bird-person frequency — part 2

what the source states: The 55% figure "helps establish a baseline for that category" of broad bird-person motifs.
what we infer: Editor: a self-report of the site's own unaudited experiment; the figure supports the claim only as the page's statement of its result. The underlying catalogue (Berezkin & Duvakin) and the site's method page are not in hand.
limitations: Self-report of the author's own experiment; method and data not retrieved.
The page itself notes the 2016 catalogue has uneven coverage.

Eugene Jhong (2026)UnverifiedDEEP-C005

Qualifies· weakDEEP-E015

Deep Memory reports its catalogue experiment's bird-person frequency — part 3

what the source states: The catalogue result "does not tell us how often a particular pose, object and arrangement occur together".
what we infer: Editor: a self-report of the site's own unaudited experiment; the figure supports the claim only as the page's statement of its result. The underlying catalogue (Berezkin & Duvakin) and the site's method page are not in hand.
limitations: Self-report of the author's own experiment; method and data not retrieved.
The page itself notes the 2016 catalogue has uneven coverage.
Second reader (claude-sonnet-5, 2026-09-09) disputes the stated direction: The quoted sentence is a limitation about what the 55% figure does and does not show (it can't distinguish specific pose/object/arrangement combinations), not a statement bearing on whether the 55% proportion itself is accurate; the claim DEEP-C005 is specifically about whether the coded data reproduce that percentage. Using this passage to 'support' the claim mischaracterizes its function—it neither confirms nor denies the proportion, but scopes the interpretive reach of the result, which is better read as context or a qualification rather than support.

Eugene Jhong (2026)UnverifiedDEEP-C005

Supports· weakDEEP-E016

Deep Memory reports its catalogue experiment's cosmic-serpent frequency — part 1

what the source states: The catalogue analysis "reports a broad cosmic-serpent class in 37% of its sampled traditions."
what we infer: Editor: same footing as EV-DEEP-002 — the site's own result, reported by its author.
limitations: Self-report of the author's own experiment; method and data not retrieved.

Eugene Jhong (2026)UnverifiedDEEP-C025

Qualifies· weakDEEP-E017

Deep Memory reports its catalogue experiment's cosmic-serpent frequency — part 2

what the source states: The catalogue analysis's geographical result "describes that selected category and dataset" only.
what we infer: Editor: same footing as EV-DEEP-002 — the site's own result, reported by its author.
limitations: Self-report of the author's own experiment; method and data not retrieved.
Second reader (claude-sonnet-5, 2026-09-09) disputes the stated direction: The quoted phrase appears exactly in the '§ Serpents, and the feathered serpent' section and is used in context to note that the geographic finding is scoped to the sampled catalogue and category, matching the record's paraphrase. However, this scope-limiting statement does not itself assert or reproduce the 37% figure named in DEEP-C025; it is a caveat about interpretability, so it should be marked as qualifying the claim's meaning rather than 'supporting' its numeric content.

Eugene Jhong (2026)UnverifiedDEEP-C025

Qualifies· weakDEEP-E018

Deep Memory's stated caution on catalogue coverage — part 1

what the source states: In the limitations of study 02, the catalogue's coverage is described as uneven: "The 2016 catalogue has uneven coverage, particularly for the ancient Near East" and Rapa Nui.
what we infer: Editor: the author's own qualification of the frequency figures; it narrows how far the 55% and 37% baselines reach without denying them.
limitations: Author's own limitation statement; the catalogue's coverage has not been independently checked.

Eugene Jhong (2026)UnverifiedDEEP-C005 DEEP-C025 DEEP-C056 DEEP-C057

Qualifies· weakDEEP-E019

Deep Memory's stated caution on catalogue coverage — part 2

what the source states: In the limitations of study 02, the catalogue's categories are distinguished from the claim's specifics: "Broad narrative categories are not the specific images or place names in the claim."
what we infer: Editor: the author's own qualification of the frequency figures; it narrows how far the 55% and 37% baselines reach without denying them.
limitations: Author's own limitation statement; the catalogue's coverage has not been independently checked.

Eugene Jhong (2026)UnverifiedDEEP-C005 DEEP-C025 DEEP-C056 DEEP-C057

Supports· weakDEEP-E020

Deep Memory reports the V1 civiliser lineup result — part 1

what the source states: In the V1 experiment, the "claimed partners ranked first in 62.5% of completed lineups".
what we infer: Editor: self-report of the site's AI lineup experiment; the number is the page's statement of its own result.
limitations: Self-report; run data not retrieved.
'Completed lineups' implies incomplete runs the page does not enumerate here.

Eugene Jhong (2026)UnverifiedDEEP-C027

Supports· weakDEEP-E021

Deep Memory reports the V1 civiliser lineup result — part 2

what the source states: Random pairs ranked first in only 9% of completed lineups, "versus 9% for random pairs".
what we infer: Editor: self-report of the site's AI lineup experiment; the number is the page's statement of its own result.
limitations: Self-report; run data not retrieved.
'Completed lineups' implies incomplete runs the page does not enumerate here.

Eugene Jhong (2026)UnverifiedDEEP-C027

Supports· weakDEEP-E022

Deep Memory reports what the image pilots exposed — part 2

what the source states: In the image pilots, "Matching the kinds of objects changed the lineup result."
what we infer: Editor: self-report of the site's pilots; these are negative or cautionary findings about method rather than about the objects.
limitations: Self-report; pilot data not retrieved.
The page notes incomplete runs and cropping constrain the conclusions.
Second reader (claude-sonnet-5, 2026-09-09) disputes the stated direction: The quoted line exactly matches the pilot's finding about kind-matched lineups and fairly supports DEEP-C038, with the locator correctly pointing to the pillar & moai section. However, the record also lists DEEP-C037 (about strong inter-judge disagreement), and this particular quote says nothing about judge agreement statistics, so labeling the record as 'supports' toward both named claims is not right for C037; it should not be treated as bearing on that claim in the same way.

Eugene Jhong (2026)UnverifiedDEEP-C038

Context· weakDEEP-E023

Deep Memory's caption on the Jiroft handbag's wear — part 2

what the source states: The handbag discussion points readers to "the Halil Rud wear study" for this observation, citing Vidale & Micheli, "The function of a chlorite hand-bag of the Halil Rud civilization" as inferred from its wear traces.
what we infer: Editor: a secondary paraphrase of a study not in hand; the primary (Vidale & Micheli) is blocked and should replace this record when retrieved.
limitations: Secondary paraphrase of an unretrieved paper.
Second reader (claude-sonnet-5, 2026-09-09) disputes the stated direction: The quoted phrase 'the Halil Rud wear study' and the Vidale & Micheli citation appear exactly as described in the 'The handbags' section, and the record accurately reports only that the source points to this study rather than asserting its findings. However, merely citing that a wear study exists does not itself support the specific claim that the study reports handle wear consistent with hanging on a cord — since the underlying paper was not retrieved, this observation is more properly 'context' pointing toward where evidence might be found rather than 'supports' the claim outright. The origin field appropriately notes this is a split of the proposed record 'Deep Memory's caption on the Jiroft handbag's wear', whose parts entered separately, satisfying independence.

Eugene Jhong (2026)UnverifiedDEEP-C009

Supports· weakDEEP-E024

Deep Memory's caption on the site names of Göbekli Tepe — part 2

what the source states: The same caption states that at Göbekli Tepe "the Kurdish names mean "wish hill.""
what we infer: Editor: an unsourced secondary statement; the toponymy needs a primary (excavation reports or a Kurdish/Turkish toponymic source) before it weighs on the navel theme.
limitations: No source given on the page for the etymologies.
Second reader (claude-sonnet-5, 2026-09-09) disputes the stated direction: The quoted phrase about Kurdish names meaning 'wish hill' appears verbatim in the cited section and is fairly reported at the correct locator, supporting DEEP-C016 directly; however, it says nothing about the Turkish name's shape-derived meaning, so labeling the record as 'supports' toward DEEP-C015 is not accurate—this is at best irrelevant to that claim. The record is otherwise atomic, contextually accurate, and does not rely on or duplicate another record's source.

Eugene Jhong (2026)UnverifiedDEEP-C016