RE: The evolution of pain.
June 11, 2016 at 9:44 am
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2016 at 10:30 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(June 11, 2016 at 9:30 am)ignoramus Wrote: My 2 brain cells have collided again and got me thinking about this.
What is pain and why do we need to experience it?[...]
Pain is an extremely sophisticated damage report system for most beings with a nervous system complex enough, it seems.
There are people with a condition (Congenital analgesia), that disables their pain receptors. Their lives are always at risk, because, they often don't know, when they're hurt - especially internally - and they don't have the instinctive reactions to pain, which help most animals avoid serious damage. If you cut, or burn yourself you quickly take the part of the body that's been hurt away from the stimulant - often even if you're not conscious. If you didn't feel pain, you could take your eyes out in your sleep - and not even know it...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
