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The evolution of pain.

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The evolution of pain.
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RE: The evolution of pain.
June 14, 2016 at 7:13 am (This post was last modified: June 14, 2016 at 7:13 am by ignoramus.)
Is there a connection between fear and pain as survival mechanisms? Or are they 2 separate systems working together to fine tune the survival chances?
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RE: The evolution of pain.
June 14, 2016 at 7:20 am (This post was last modified: June 14, 2016 at 7:20 am by robvalue.)
Interesting! I have no idea.

What I need is to be genetically/robotically altered then, to make my brain not give me pain for longer than 5 seconds.

Or just bypass most of my brain and connect up the "happy" wires. I wouldn't even need to do anything then.
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RE: The evolution of pain.
June 14, 2016 at 9:18 am (This post was last modified: June 14, 2016 at 9:21 am by The Grand Nudger.)
A favorite concept in sci fi, is a society that has engineered their members to be able to control the status of receptors associated with pain or even emotional anguish.  The point of proposing these people is usually to ask the question of whether or not we should, if we could.  

-Should we diminish our ability to relate to the pain of others by diminishing our ability to feel the measuring stick in the first place?
-Should we grant ourselves the innate ability to manufacture happy complacence?
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RE: The evolution of pain.
June 14, 2016 at 5:39 pm
What's the worst that can happen?
It's not like we care for our fellow human being now.
With 90% of the population suffering, sck or hungry.
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RE: The evolution of pain.
June 14, 2016 at 5:55 pm (This post was last modified: June 14, 2016 at 5:55 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I'd worry for the other 10%. Pain grounds us.
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RE: The evolution of pain.
July 11, 2016 at 9:12 pm
write me something about the evolution of hunger.
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