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Originally posted by SteveR
reply to post by Buck Division
Your avatar is more important than this question.
Originally posted by Buck Division
Are there any limits to the extent of pain, pleasure, fear, hatred, love, and other physical sensations?
We conclude that a major function of consciousness may be to transform the nonlinear, irrational and difficult to predict dynamics of unconscious nature into the more linear, rational and predictable psychodynamics that make human experience and social life possible.
Originally posted by Buck Division
Or are physical sensations just an infinite abyss, that you can go deeper and deeper into without ever reaching a blocking point?
My guess: there are no limits to human sensation. (That can be a very bad thing actually.)