• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 months ago

    Didn’t have to. Kind of an obvious thing to point out, but OP didn’t specify what type of pain he meant, so I figured I would, just in case.

      • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
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        5 months ago

        Human brains don’t actually have any pain receptors (even though headaches would have you seriously believe otherwise), so a brain alone wouldn’t be able to feel pain any more than it would be able to smell or see.

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          5 months ago

          Wow. Equally confident, equally confused.

          The brain processes the information from the nerves.

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            Might just be that nerve cells by themselves “experience” something when stimulated, but pain perhaps requires certain structures of neurons or even parts of a brain to be interpreted as “pain”. I’m just spitballing though since I’m not a neuroscientist or anything like that.