(September 19, 2016 at 12:10 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(September 17, 2016 at 5:14 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: We don't know "the experience itself", we know what we tell ourselves about the experience.Clearly false. No one experiences pain after they form a concept of pain. Pain is the experience itself - primal and unmediated.
(September 17, 2016 at 5:14 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: I think consciousness is just an illusion. Do you have any actual evidence that it isn't?Of what is consciousness an illusion? Again you engage in self-refutation. You cannot think consciousness is an illusion without consciously thinking about it.
Pain is information, it is what the brain tells us to feel given certain stimli. There are people who can't feel pain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital...ty_to_pain
Interestingly they can still feel touch.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.