[Serious] The Purpose of Pain

[John 6IX Breezy]

Pain has no specific or necessary or reliable outcome with respect to learning, it barely manages that with respect to it's own biological function. Indelible stamp and all that.

The scientific study of learning and memory has used pain more than any other stimulus, perhaps with the exception of fear itself, to advance our understanding of learning. From John Watson inducing fear in Baby Albert, to Eric Kandel using noxious stimulus in sea slugs to win the Nobel Prize in memory. Avoiding future pain and injury is perhaps one of the primary purposes of learning and memory from an evolutionary perspective.