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Even losing a finger can result in heavy phantom pain. I have a friend who losed a part of his leg, and he complained for many years about pain. I think if yo
by mharig 4y ago
Even losing a finger can result in heavy phantom pain.
I have a friend who losed a part of his leg, and he complained for many years about pain.
I think if you separate all peripheral nerve connections from the brain, it will shut down immediately.
- ravi-delia 4y agoBut that's all the more evidence of cognition in the absence of physicality. Phantom pain is a result of signals leaking from adjacent areas of the brain to the ones which once handled senses originating from that region of the body. And you sure enough feel something, because you don't feel with your fingers. You feel, and indeed experience every other sense, only in your brain.
- mharig 4y agoYes. There are two different questions: Can a brain be constructed in a rather isolated state? Can a natural brain survive when separated from its periphery? I think the second is not possible. The first may be possible, but not in the near future.
- ravi-delia 4y agoOh granted. Maybe head transplants are on the table, but certainly a brain without a peripheral nervous system filling it with data would go into shock immediately. Even if not, there isn't a less pleasant experience I could imagine.