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LTK:
Bromance? :mrgreen:
Anyway, I finished Feeling Pain And Being in Pain. It was more philosophical than I expected, but it also made me reconsider what I thought I knew about pain and suffering. The fact that lobotomised patients appear to be unbothered by chronic pain made me think that internalising pain, and experiencing it as the worst feeling in the world, may require some higher cognitive function that a lobotomy removes. That would imply that animals with smaller and less developed brains may only experience pain as a mechanical rather than an emotional motivator, and that they are less capable of suffering as humans are.
But the other types of pain disorders, such as pain asymbolia, indicate that the aversiveness of pain is inextricably linked to its motivational component. It is apparently impossible to be not bothered by pain, and at the same time avoiding it. I'm not sure how the experience of lobotomised patients fits in here, but this does indicate that pain, in order to be of any use, has to hurt. Since virtually every animal that has muscles is able to move away from something that's hurting it, the capacity to feel pain and respond to it is ubiquitous among animals, which implies that they all hurt just as much. So it's possible that the pain that an earthworm feels when it is poked by a needle is identical to the pain felt by a human after the same action. That's hard to imagine, isn't it?
Welu:
I thought I posted this already and maybe I did but I'm currently reading The Psychopath Test. I find the subject interesting but the voice, I think that's the right word, annoys me for some reason. I think it's got a bit of, "I hate myself but also think I'm better than everyone I encounter" to it. I don't think that makes any sense but it's the closest words I can get to why I think it bothers me.
Bluesummers:
UGHH my head....I am currently reading Homestuck, and am the middle of Act 4 right now.
I swear to god, guys, people have had acid trips more understandable than this. :psyduck:
Pilchard123:
And then the archive binges. IT KEEPS HAPPENING.
mtmerrick:
--- Quote from: Bluesummers on 28 Apr 2013, 11:36 ---UGHH my head....I am currently reading Homestuck, and am the middle of Act 4 right now.
I swear to god, guys, people have had acid trips more understandable than this. :psyduck:
--- End quote ---
i've been reading homestuck.
i'm here.
god i love it.
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