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I'm not a doctor but if you've ever had to deal with nerve pain or neurological conditions in general, there's a ton of stuff we don't know. Doctors will readil

I'm not a doctor but if you've ever had to deal with nerve pain or neurological conditions in general, there's a ton of stuff we don't know. Doctors will readily admit this. Not sure that the question of whether we've "tried hard" to understand it is a productive one but there's a ton of stuff where we have only a vague idea of what is going on, we prescribe drugs that sort of work but we don't know how they work, conditions that they can't even nail down a diagnosis for, etc. It's probably one of the least well understood areas of medicine.

solveit 6y ago
> Not sure that the question of whether we've "tried hard" to understand it is a productive one The point is that more effort isn't likely to dramatically change things on the margin. Whether we know much about pain in an absolute sense is really quite orthogonal to the question.
- mattigames 6y ago
  >The point is that more effort isn't likely to dramatically change things on the margin. Citation needed; I think is completely possible to modify nerve communication in real time and its within our reach but the resources to do all the research and experiments just aren't there; the causes with the big bucks are things like cancer research (nothing worng with that, just pointing it out); plus many artificial obstacles to make lab-grown nerves such as religious organizations against stem cell research.