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Fun fact: Some scientist did an experiment with a virtual ball game where some participants were never passed the ball.
Today, I was simply curios about how pain worked.
I knew that a neural signal is sent from the place where the pain was felt into the brain. I know that then chemicals are released that make us feel the sensation of "pain". I know that the reason for this is that it is advantageous from an evolutionary standpoint. But my question was how do chemical reactions get turned into subjective pain. I still don't know the answer, and my best guess is that nobody knows the answer. Apparently, it is thought that the emotional reaction to pain (which I assume is what I am looking for) is somehow related to the "Anterior cingulate cortex".
I am probably going to dive into the current understanding of consciousness at some point, but from what I know it wont get much clearer then.
- 12 february 2026