Mario De Paoli, born in 1940, was awarded a degree in Chemistry and a degree in Physics at the University of Padova. He taught mathematics and physics at a high school. He published Brain dynamics for goal-directed social navigation(2021), Modelli dinamici dell’evoluzione della civiltà urbana (2022), L’evoluzione delle specie semiotiche (2024) and, with the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst A. Pesavento, La signora del piano di sopra. Struttura semantica di un percorso narrativo onirico (2013).