I was gonna be more critical but, hey, whatever. Still, I figured I should put up my definition of pain rather than deleting it.
Pain is not people with hemispherectomies having asymmetrical brains. Pain is aversion, is learning not to do that again, and yelling and contorting my face, and fight-or-flight response, tensing my muscles, and the bodily sensations as my circulatory system responds to injury, and not being able to focus well on anything but short term strategies for removing the aversive stimulus, and priming my memory to recall danger and injury, and being able to easily compare the sensation with other signals that fit the learned word “pain,” and knowing I’ll feel like crap for a while even after the pain passes.
I was gonna be more critical but, hey, whatever. Still, I figured I should put up my definition of pain rather than deleting it.
Pain is not people with hemispherectomies having asymmetrical brains. Pain is aversion, is learning not to do that again, and yelling and contorting my face, and fight-or-flight response, tensing my muscles, and the bodily sensations as my circulatory system responds to injury, and not being able to focus well on anything but short term strategies for removing the aversive stimulus, and priming my memory to recall danger and injury, and being able to easily compare the sensation with other signals that fit the learned word “pain,” and knowing I’ll feel like crap for a while even after the pain passes.