I feel the somatic sensation of noxious stimulus, which is the perception of pain (nociception). Prior to the perception of pain, or sometimes simultaneous with the perception of pain, a person will experience a reflexive withdrawal from the physical source of the stimulus (nociceptive flexion reflex). Failing that, the brain will signal an electrical suggestion, or impulse, to remove the body from the physical source of the stimulus (generalized withdrawal response).
I experience nociception correctly, so I understand I am in pain and to what extent that I am. I will also notice if the pain increases in severity at the juncture of its increase. However, I fail to experience a nociceptive flexion reflex or generalized withdrawal response. When the body is not removed from the physical stimulus of pain, the input becomes continuous; and then, mundane. There is a synaptic understanding that the stimulus is occurring (perception) but tolerance begins to build, in the same way selective auditory attention functions: the noise level of a room may at first be perceptible when entering, but becomes easy to ignore after a few moments.
Perception is then dampened after the first few moments of perception, and ultimately disappears from my consciousness. However, it is not only pain that I experience this with, but most stimuli.
In line with this process, the potential capacity for digital stimuli to be more perceptible to the brain than real stimuli is interesting to me. Though, it doesn't really matter to me either way, if it fails to impress itself upon my perception more than real-world stimulus can.
( He didn't need to type all that to just say "If I put my hand on a hot stove I won't feel the need take it off," but he did so, )
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I feel the somatic sensation of noxious stimulus, which is the perception of pain (nociception). Prior to the perception of pain, or sometimes simultaneous with the perception of pain, a person will experience a reflexive withdrawal from the physical source of the stimulus (nociceptive flexion reflex). Failing that, the brain will signal an electrical suggestion, or impulse, to remove the body from the physical source of the stimulus (generalized withdrawal response).
I experience nociception correctly, so I understand I am in pain and to what extent that I am. I will also notice if the pain increases in severity at the juncture of its increase. However, I fail to experience a nociceptive flexion reflex or generalized withdrawal response. When the body is not removed from the physical stimulus of pain, the input becomes continuous; and then, mundane. There is a synaptic understanding that the stimulus is occurring (perception) but tolerance begins to build, in the same way selective auditory attention functions: the noise level of a room may at first be perceptible when entering, but becomes easy to ignore after a few moments.
Perception is then dampened after the first few moments of perception, and ultimately disappears from my consciousness. However, it is not only pain that I experience this with, but most stimuli.
In line with this process, the potential capacity for digital stimuli to be more perceptible to the brain than real stimuli is interesting to me. Though, it doesn't really matter to me either way, if it fails to impress itself upon my perception more than real-world stimulus can.
( He didn't need to type all that to just say "If I put my hand on a hot stove I won't feel the need take it off," but he did so, )