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Episode 121: The Biology of Pain

The Science of Everything Podcast

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Is There a Signal That Feels Like Something?

It seems that all of our other sensations, at least when we're consciously sort of attending to them, you know, sight, sound, touch and so forth, they all feel like something. So it's not really clear that why pain would be different in that respect. And I suppose you could still ask, well, yeah, but couldn't there be such a sort of signal that still doesn't feel like anything? At that point, again, this really moves us into the realm of philosophy rather than science. But anyway, that's enough speculation for now. Hopefully you found this episode interesting, if maybe not entirely satisfying in all respects.

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