• JohnEdwa
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      6 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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        6 months ago

        Wow. Equally confident, equally confused.

        The brain processes the information from the nerves.

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          6 months ago

          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.