> Yes, of course, all sensations are actually located in the brain. That goes without saying. Ehm... not only is it necessary to say that sensation emerges fro

> Yes, of course, all sensations are actually located in the brain. That goes without saying. Ehm... not only is it necessary to say that sensation emerges from the brain, it actually bears repeating quite a lot :) The separation of mind and body is a highly resilient illusion. If you're in pain then that illusion is fiercely potent. If someone sticks you with a needle and asks "where is the pain", you won't say "in my brain". > I'm not sure if science really has much of an idea of what is actually going on anyway. The problem with unexplained pain phenomena such as "fibromyalgia" may in part be a measurement error: we simply don't currently have the technology necessary to determine peripheral contributing factors. Imagine life before MRI, before X-ray . We have increasingly tantalising glimpses into the contributing factors behind pain phenomena such as phantom limb pain, and complex regional pain syndrome. But we haven't pieced the puzzle together quite yet. There are some known mechanisms whereby innocuous stimuli can result in the subjective experience of pain. For further reading, have a look into "central sensitisation" and "dorsal horn wind-up". To anticipate, I'm well aware that findings on imaging can correlate poorly with subjective experiences such as pain. This is simply an analogy.