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Anatomy of Pain - The Inherent Awadness of Pain
A thought experiment imagines two different anaesthetics, one of which has the effect of killing the or the of stopping all the reactions that the pain normally triggers. And the other which does the oppositeit all the normal reaction and but it doesn't have the intrinsic awfulness to it. So if you imagine what would happen in the first case, you would react exactly as if you were ina, asif you were in pain. In the second case, your body is supposed to be analogous to the dothe dollar. You believe something terrible's happening there. They're making you anxious, theyr, the the here, having physiological effects. Its may be making you anticipate all kinds