The body’s tissue only experiences sensations
and contains danger receptors, not actual pain receptors.
This is important to know because when a sensation is
experienced within the tissue, than all the information attained from that
specific experience is sent to the brain and added to every other sensation stimulus
you’ve ever encountered that is similar to this very one.
Pain correlates with danger, not injury.
If you suffer a dreaded paper cut injury, then you bleed which would initially
send a dangerous signal to the brain.
The brain processes all the new information
against the current information and as it’s seen this before and it knows that
it isn’t an actual danger, then the pain signals aren’t sent out.
You apply
some pressure with a tissue and go about your day.
On the other hand of you slice your finger
off chopping up the onions, then brain receives the same information but as you
probably haven’t cut your finger off before, the information is skewed towards
danger and a pain signal is now sent.
The end result is a pain experience.
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