Angela Longo et Daniela Patrizia Taormina (éd.), Plotinus and Epicurus. Matter, Perception, Pleasure

Public Participation: Methods Matter; A Response to Boaz et al.

From perception to pleasure: music and its neural substrates.

Music has existed in human societies since prehistory, perhaps because it allows expression and regulation of emotion and evokes pleasure. In this review, we present findings from cognitive neuroscience that bear on the question of how we get from perception of sound patterns to pleasurable responses. First, we identify some of the auditory cortical circuits that are responsible for encoding an...

Biggs and Daniela

School in Architecture. He has published widely on research theory in the creative and performing arts and has extensive experience as a doctoral supervisor and examiner in the UK, Sweden and Brazil. She has degrees and experience as practitioner and researcher in architecture, urban planning and industrial design.

Was Plotinus influenced by opium?

SOME justification is necessary for adding to the list of suspected opium-takers of the past. The academic game of seizing on certain similarities between the thought of a selected victim and the features supposed to be characteristic of opium dreams long ago became something of a bad habit. In the case of Plotinus (205-270 A.D.), however, grounds for the belief can be found outside his own wri...

A Purely Arithmetical, yet Empirically Falsifiable, Interpretation of Plotinus’ Theory of Matter

There is a vast literature where Gödel’s first and second incompleteness theorems are used to argue that human beings are different of, if not superior to, any machine. The most famous attempts have been given by J. Lucas in the early sixties and by R. Penrose in two famous books [53, 54]. Such type of argument are not well supported. See for example the recent book by T. Franzèn [21]. There is...