The bridge between ancient philosophy and modern neuroscience. With Livia Aurelia Vitti, read Epictetus's dichotomy of control in the Greek, trace its documented descent through Ellis, Beck, and Lazarus into the clinic, and watch the Stoic judgment reach the bloodstream in Alia Crum's mindset work, where a label moves ghrelin and cortisol while the stimulus is held constant. You will read the Stoic estimate as a Closure in the C Framework, meet one falsifiable prediction precise enough to be wrong, hold the evidence to its honest, modest size, and run real reappraisal experiments on your own body. A consolation you cannot test is only a mood. Built on Livia's thesis, Not the Things Themselves.
IACSInt'l Academy for Consciousness Studies