Categoria: Enéada IV, 6 (41)

Of Sensation and Memory. STOIC DOCTRINES OF SENSATIONS AND MEMORIES HANG TOGETHER. If we deny that sensations are images impressed on the soul, similar to the impression of a seal, we shall also, for the sake of consistency, have to deny that memories are notions or sensations preserved in the soul by the permanence of…

Tractate 41 Fourth Ennead. Sixth tractate. Perception and memory. 1. Perceptions are no imprints, we have said, are not to be thought of as seal-impressions on soul or mind: accepting this statement, there is one theory of memory which must be definitely rejected. Memory is not to be explained as the retaining of information in…