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January 17, 2013 06:38 pm PST
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The two parts of pain
TIL: That what we think of as "pain" is actually two different things. The most basic sense is called nociception — a non-subjective reflex that drives lots of animals to pull away from dangerous things. Pain — actual pain — is what happens after nociception, and different individuals perceive it differently under different situations. So, [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/lY_ZDZFtjZg/the-two-parts-of-pain.html
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