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I 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.
by rohit89 10y ago
I 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.