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Interesting. So how about counting nociceptors for moral weight? What specifically makes it so the pain neurons cause pain and the pleasure neurons cause plea
by 0xDEAFBEAD 2y ago
Interesting. So how about counting nociceptors for moral weight?
What specifically makes it so the pain neurons cause pain and the pleasure neurons cause pleasure? Supposing I invented a sort of hybrid neuron, with some features of a pain neuron and some features of a pleasure neuron -- is there any way a neuroscientist could look at its structure+chemistry and predict whether it will produce pleasures vs pain?
- adrian_b 2y agoEven if this is not well understood, it is likely that any differences between the pain neurons and any other sensory neurons are not essential. It is likely that it only matters where they are connected in the sensory paths that carry the information about sensations towards the central nervous system. Probably any signal coming into the central nervous system on those paths dedicated for pain is interpreted as pain, like a signal coming through the optical nerves would be interpreted as light, even when it would be caused by an impact on the head. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nociception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nociception