RE: The Purpose of Pain
January 27, 2021 at 11:27 pm
(This post was last modified: January 27, 2021 at 11:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
-or at least reports that is has or will.
That's the thing that really is an issue for our understanding - and pretty much all of it is an open question. Even though pain in the body model is relatively straightforward, the human instantiation of pain seems to be elaborate, deeply flawed, and we're not sure what it adds or is supposed to add to something we might call the base body model - where a machine or organism is aware of it's surroundings and aware of damage and aware of danger but doesn't feel pain. This is the norm for most of life, so far as we can tell (and we spend a considerable amount of time in that space ourselves) - so even if we're allowing that our own model works, the other model(s?) is much better represented right on the face of things.
We don't even have a particularly impressive body model (again, if that's what we're doing - open question) - that's why we're clumsy, too. It's the kind of solution to a problem that you might expect a committee of absent members to arrive at in isolation from each others contributions, solely limited to items they already had laying around their respective houses.
My hair is wet, quick, go get the toaster! I want to put a sticker on my face, someone grab a hammer! I'm drowning, let go of my arm and dig a ditch to let this water out!
That's the thing that really is an issue for our understanding - and pretty much all of it is an open question. Even though pain in the body model is relatively straightforward, the human instantiation of pain seems to be elaborate, deeply flawed, and we're not sure what it adds or is supposed to add to something we might call the base body model - where a machine or organism is aware of it's surroundings and aware of damage and aware of danger but doesn't feel pain. This is the norm for most of life, so far as we can tell (and we spend a considerable amount of time in that space ourselves) - so even if we're allowing that our own model works, the other model(s?) is much better represented right on the face of things.
We don't even have a particularly impressive body model (again, if that's what we're doing - open question) - that's why we're clumsy, too. It's the kind of solution to a problem that you might expect a committee of absent members to arrive at in isolation from each others contributions, solely limited to items they already had laying around their respective houses.
My hair is wet, quick, go get the toaster! I want to put a sticker on my face, someone grab a hammer! I'm drowning, let go of my arm and dig a ditch to let this water out!
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