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originally posted by: Mandroid7
Solid theory, until someone punches you in the face.
Funny, but also true.
originally posted by: Mandroid7
Solid theory, until someone punches you in the face.
Some paralyzed people would feel that if the nerves are only partially and not completely severed. If the nerves are completely severed, that's like saying if electricity was real the light bulb would still come on even if you cut the wires going to the light bulb. That's got nothing to do with electricity or pain not being real and everything to do with you not understanding how they work.
originally posted by: Alien Abduct
Pain is an illusion. Think about it, if I took a pair of pliers and pinched your toe your toe will send electrical impulses to your brain via your nerves. Your brain will then tell you that it is pain and you believe it.
If pain were real then people that are paralysed would also feel pain in their toe when I squeezed it with a pair of pliers.
Or until people start thinking outside the box, Pun intended. I'm simply not entirely able to explain it as I perceive it.
originally posted by: Mandroid7
Solid theory, until someone punches you in the face.
originally posted by: ssenerawa
My theory on time not existing is not as of concrete as of yet, but it is based on my theory of what I call relative motion.
Movement couldn't exist without anything relative or for lack of better words, something to compare the distance of said object to and/or from
originally posted by: Alien Abduct
a reply to: Arbitrageur
I understand quite well.
Your electricity light bulb is a bad analogy because when electric flows through the wire to the bulb it lights the bulb.
With pain it's quite the opposite. The electrical impulse goes from the bulb (toe being pinched) to your brain where it is interpreted as pain, giving you the sensation of pain. You see these sensations are actually happening in your brain. Not your toes.
Looks like you are the one that doesn't understand.
originally posted by: purpleivan
originally posted by: Alien Abduct
a reply to: Arbitrageur
I understand quite well.
Your electricity light bulb is a bad analogy because when electric flows through the wire to the bulb it lights the bulb.
With pain it's quite the opposite. The electrical impulse goes from the bulb (toe being pinched) to your brain where it is interpreted as pain, giving you the sensation of pain. You see these sensations are actually happening in your brain. Not your toes.
Looks like you are the one that doesn't understand.
So by your logic nothing is real as it is all just sensory input interpreted by the brain.
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originally posted by: Alien Abduct
It very well could be just that. Floating brains.
originally posted by: roadgravel
originally posted by: Alien Abduct
It very well could be just that. Floating brains.
Bolzmann Brains