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If he does not feel pain, then he is not superhuman, but subhuman. When we designed an artificial limb, we "discovered" how useful pain is. We really need some
by pipio21 10y ago
If he does not feel pain, then he is not superhuman, but subhuman.
When we designed an artificial limb, we "discovered" how useful pain is. We really need some skin that could discover on their own collisions with other objects, that should not be there, but are.
- rohit89 10y agoI sense injuries. The data could be called "pain". If you can self-heal from the worst of injuries, you don't need to feel pain.
- XorNot 10y agoI've always been curious if we'd interpret pain differently if we knew with certainty that any injuries it could represent would not be fatal, nor permanent.
- rohit89 10y agoI think so. Pain is a way of alerting us that some damage took place and that it needs to be taken care of. I imagine the brain would evolve to ignore pain since the people who feel it less would have an advantage over the ones who feel it even if both were self-healing. We already have a version of this with adrenaline to numb the pain so that we can get out of a dangerous situation.
- adontz 10y agoProbably OP mean pain does not interfere mental functions the way is does for living beings.