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There won't be any pain as brains don't have nerve endings. But you won't have any other senses too. Just pitch blank, deathly silence, floating for eternity.
by ganeshkrishnan 8y ago
There won't be any pain as brains don't have nerve endings. But you won't have any other senses too. Just pitch blank, deathly silence, floating for eternity.
- hackinthebochs 8y agoYour brain can't hurt, but presumably a phantom body could be made to hurt by providing the right neural stimulation.
- coldtea 8y agoNerve endings receive pain. The brain "feels it". So it can easily be made to feel pain -- just pass in the same signals the nerves would have.
- bdamm 8y ago"floating", "silence", and "black" are sensory states. There's no assurance that a brain in a pool would feel any of these. It's hard to know what a brain will project as it attempts to construct a reality matching that for which it evolved.
- Wowfunhappy 8y agoBut it's reasonable to use these terms since they're the best approximations/guesses we have. Also, people who become blind later in life often describe it as "black", so I think it's reasonable to assume that's how the brain would interpret lack of sense.