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(Quote from Cassius) This brings to mind the work of Lisa Feldman Barrett that Don and I have posted about previously. As I recall, she discussed in a podcast (I'm not sure if it's in her book) a million year old primitive life form as being a very early manifestation of the faculty. But she's not looking at the way Epicurus described things: modern neuroscience just seems to have a lot of overlap with his thinking. In her book she describes "affect": a combination of pleasant/unpleasant and cal…

Here's one thread on her work: How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett

In the past I've also been interested in the writing of Sarah Williams Goldhagen regarding embodied cognition. But she, as I recall, is a design critic. LFB is a neuroscientist and is more on point.

That's an interesting question. On first pass I would say that it's the feeling of pain, and it's a good illustration of why sometimes we would choose to sacrifice ourselves because the pain of sacrifice would be less than the pain of seeing our child suffer. On second pass, however, there is sensation and preconception involved, as well as feeling. Feelings don't just arise out of nowhere! So this is a good way to examine what a preconception might be in a particular instance. Would the preconc…

(Quote from Cassius) I tend to think of The Rocky Horror Picture Show The entire operation of a computer is based on 1 and 0, which might be equated to pleasure and pain. Or not.