RE: Consciousness
July 5, 2025 at 4:53 pm
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2025 at 4:57 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 5, 2025 at 4:02 pm)GrandizerII Wrote: How does the feeling of pain arise exactly?Exactly how needs a more exact question....though, as with photosynthesis, all answers will be incomplete. Different types of pain arise through different means. Temperature apparatus doesn't work the same way pressure apparatus does, which doesn't work the same way chemical apparatus does - and we haven't even gotten out of detection yet.
Quote:Could neurochemical activities in the nervous system really make "alive" this feeling just through processing?Really, alive, and just doing the heavy lifting in this question.
In short, sure, why not? That's what it looks like when we go looking, at least. We actually know quite a bit about the information processing of pain. It get's alot of funding and, fwiw, we've been exploring the subject since before we fell out of the trees.
*my favorite bit is pain modulation, personally. It's particularly informative in context, not because knowing how it works is a full description of consciousness, but because knowing how it works is a very good demonstration of the errors we make in framing our questions about it. We're justified in saying that there are things about consciousness we don't know which we would like to, but we're very often wrong about which things those are.
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