Preliminary results – I have some basic elements of this fascinating issue. Not enough data to accurately measure with enough certitude all of the different types of pain for sure.
The best alternative in exploring this issue in depth is related to pain’s mirror and opposite component – pleasure.
Although they are different in nature and response within the human body, brain and mind they respond essentially in the same manner.
Pain is a contractive response within the framework of the body/brain/mind(spirit) apparatus.
Pleasure is an expansive one.
Pain is focused whereas pleasure is more generalized especially within the brain.
Within the context of the nervous system, pain and pleasure are closed circuits. Both have a beginning(point of origin) and a corresponding focal point(end point) from which the information being sent back and forth can be interpreted. Within the context of pain & pleasure using nerves, there’s also an on/off switch that triggers the initial mechanism.
Let us take pain for the moment as the principal focus of our discussion. Pain as we all know has many forms. Let us start from the most simple of all types without getting into more complicated discussions.
A simple cut on a finger. The cut is actually the triggering mechanism – the on/off switch that has triggered an inbalance in the natural circuit of the body’s nerves at that specific point. The natural human body is a bio-feedback system, constantly changing, adapting to it’s environmental surroundings. It is done on a very precise level without conscious thought. Built in and primal at that. Natural mechanism to keep a biological entity alive and we depend on it without any thought process involved because we trust it implicitly. That allows us and frees us for more important focus on high intellectual issues. The mechanism of the brain is just as depend on the principal of conservation of NRGY. No more, no less, just right so that the rest of the body doesn’t become impaired by having all of it’s NRGY requirements solely framed around the Top of the Body, but also within the brain. It uses the same risk assessment model of spreading out risk while maximizing it’s return on investment.
So back to pain. With an open cut, a network is impaired. Signals are missing in the packets of data sent to the brain’s appropriated pain receptors. The bigger the cut, the bigger the missing parts of that packet and corresponding response. This is a basic principle that involves quantity of information sent and lacking. The brain has precise measurements of the data that should be processed by various types of pain within the framework of the total sum of the information through time. I believe the information store of the database is within DNA, but cannot confirm it at this time. More research required – this one will take more than 5 minutes so don’t hold your breaths waiting.
Let us expand on pain just a bit more. Over time with reliable information processed with our pain experiences the brain and mind come to an agreed upon quantity of information about the quality of pain. For the most part and I can confirm this explicitly, the basic fight/flight response is indeed framed within the Cerebellum. No thought process required, instant response. What happens when the pain is bigger or different than usual, it need interpretation by the mind to determine how to react. So what happens, when pain is unfamiliar or greater than what is normal and expected, a transition and transformation takes place between the cerebellum into the brain. From there it is processed into something that the mind can relate to within the confines of our other previous experiences. A search is performed to find as an exact a match as possible so that we can Baseline both set of data and understand the differences and respond to it appropriately.
What I would like to point out is that the bigger the pain, the greater the focus required to deal with it. In other words, the brain works in the same way as a computer in terms of timeslices. Pain moves to the forefront of all information being processed at the same time and becomes a higher priority and hence requires a higher degree of attention on our part. This mechanism of focus of attention within the brain to bring our complete conscious attention is due to contraction at it’s most basic level. The greater the contraction the greater the effort required to deal with it over everything else because the differences now are based on baseline values between relationships of degrees of relativity. What as before contracted compared to another suddenly becomes less contracted relative to new information that is very focused, contracted and needing more NRGY to process. Other elements of conscious thought falls down the list of priorities and actually become suspense files – placeholders until the pain element is dealt. Then everything else can resume it’s normal course once pain is dealt with, as long as the pain is not catastrophic or so damaging as to require a full reshuffle of priorities. Both Consciously and Subconscious by the Body/Mind/Spirit integration mechanism.
I’ll discuss later on what I suspect is happening with missing limbs. In the meantime, I’ll explore more in depth, but it’s a slow process like learning to walk. Baby steps. It took a long time for me to start to understand this knowledge and to be able to put it into words. Words are good, but still not accurate enough. The breakthrough comes in being able to do something practical with it, such as pain management – it’s a huge social and global issue. The solution has huge ramifications on multiple levels. My concern again lies with misuse of the information and using it immorally and for the wrong reasons. So for now, explanations will have to stay in generalized words. Wise people will be able to decipher the information and use it accordingly. Hopefully they’ll be accountable also.
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