Good point. It's hard to see the experience of specific pain as ever existing within a vacuum of human experience. It's interesting to compare ourselves: a pop

Good point. It's hard to see the experience of specific pain as ever existing within a vacuum of human experience. It's interesting to compare ourselves: a population of pill poppers at the slightest twinge, to those in other parts of the world who simply don't. Perhaps it affords us some extra (or different) mental space in an intangible way.