Samuele

I'll also give you a concrete example of how our sense of touch operates: there is a known phenomenon which manifests if you twist your tongue upside ...

a body part can't FEEL anything by itself. The very reasons why we can feel things on our body is because our brain maps the feelings to the correct b...

You're correct as the fact that I've missed a lot of posts. I am not home and browsing on my phone is difficult, so it's easy to miss answers. As soon...

I have stated that the signaling of pain takes place at the damage site, and the pain is later processed and thus experienced in the brain. I stand by...

https://www.everydayhealth.com/pain-management/how-pain-works.aspx I guess everyone is making things up on the net, and pain exists locally as some we...

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there are multiple instances in which we can't trust our perception, from optical illusions to all the scenarios I mentioned in my previous posts. If ...

it's not. The nerves in your foot signal to your brain that a body part is being damaged, your CNS processes the signal, and you experience pain. Your...

I don't think pain is "in your foot," to begin with. I might be wrong, but it feels to me like you're really trying to find something wrong in my ques...

then what is "what's perceived"? I might be wrong but I think I clarified what I meant each time I said that. What's perceived can't be something abso...

okay, take my initial example of electromagnetic fields. Some animals can sense them, whereas we know they exist thanks to science and the tools we us...

Thank you man, I appreciate it. I think sometimes the mechanisms that keep us alive and moving forward (evolving) aren't immediately understandable by...

because someone blind can't see that tree, and a person with schizophrenia might see a car instead of a tree. Who's right?

don't electromagnetic fields affect us too, though? Birds seem to be able to use them to tell which way is north etc., while flying. I'm not sure abou...

But aren't we perceiving multiple stimulae simultaneously already? When you hear and see something at the same time, it doesn't take longer to process...

thank you for pointing out! It took me some time to write all of that, and when I went to copy and paste everything together I must have messed someth...