‘Caring’, whatever that is, doesn’t have to involve ‘pain’. I care about many things that do not trigger pain neurons.
So pain asymbolia means something else than “being able to feel pain but not caring about it”?
“When pain does not hurt”
It means “being able to feel pain but not suffering from it.”
Where “pain” and “suffering” are defined, respectively, as… what?
Roughly, pain is a sensation typically associated with damage to the body, suffering is an experience of stimuli as intrinsically unpleasant.
I do not suffer if my room is painted a color I do not like, but I still may care about the color my room is painted.
Agree, with the assumption that “stimuli” as relevant to suffering includes internal stimuli generated from one’s own thoughts.
Yeah, that’s certainly a fair clarification. It’d probably take a lot more space to give a really robust definition of “suffering”, but that’s close enough for gummint work.
You are a much more powerful consequentialist than our evolutionary ancestors which first evolved pain. They probably couldn’t care about avoiding events which had not previously caused them pain.
I am also an animal.
You are an animal of the first species to invent computers. You have superpowers not posessed by other animals.
Now there’s one for “Shit Rationalists Say.”
Having reread your reply several times, I still have no idea how it is related to what I said.
‘Caring’, whatever that is, doesn’t have to involve ‘pain’. I care about many things that do not trigger pain neurons.
So pain asymbolia means something else than “being able to feel pain but not caring about it”?
“When pain does not hurt”
It means “being able to feel pain but not suffering from it.”
Where “pain” and “suffering” are defined, respectively, as… what?
Roughly, pain is a sensation typically associated with damage to the body, suffering is an experience of stimuli as intrinsically unpleasant.
I do not suffer if my room is painted a color I do not like, but I still may care about the color my room is painted.
Agree, with the assumption that “stimuli” as relevant to suffering includes internal stimuli generated from one’s own thoughts.
Yeah, that’s certainly a fair clarification. It’d probably take a lot more space to give a really robust definition of “suffering”, but that’s close enough for gummint work.
You are a much more powerful consequentialist than our evolutionary ancestors which first evolved pain. They probably couldn’t care about avoiding events which had not previously caused them pain.
I am also an animal.
You are an animal of the first species to invent computers. You have superpowers not posessed by other animals.
Now there’s one for “Shit Rationalists Say.”
Having reread your reply several times, I still have no idea how it is related to what I said.