> it's almost taboo to suggest that our brains are, in fact, unique, that we don't all experience the world the same way We can only hope (and work towards) th

> it's almost taboo to suggest that our brains are, in fact, unique, that we don't all experience the world the same way We can only hope (and work towards) that will change. Of all the things I've read in the last year, Andy Clark's "Surfing Uncertainty" [0] has most changed my view on the experience of being. You can read a synopsis at the link, but my quick take is that its core premise is that based on the totality of our life experience, our brain creates models of the world and our interactions with it. Our everyday experience of the world is then the interaction between what our brain predicts will happen from the model, error corrected via our sensory input. So yes, everyone is unique and experiences the world differently. Where this is relevant to pain is realising how much of pain is in our head (so to speak). I started thinking about this originally when I was trying to work out why I would voluntarily put myself through the "pain" of long-distance running... [0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25823558-surfing-uncertainty https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25823558-surfing-uncerta...