How does pain hurt? What is the mechanism whereby pain hurts? How is it happen that pains hurts?

Question

Tell me a little about the pathways in the brain, and stuff like that.

Also mention how the brain almost always tells you where the pain is hurting, even though the pain is not actually there, it's somewhere else, if I'm not mistaken.

I'm asking for cogent replies, if possible.

No, I'm asking about the hurt. How does it hurt. We all know about nerves, but how does the hurt get started in the brain.

Answer 1

I actually think that pain is a unique experience. We all do know about nerves and whatnot, but actual pain is a different thing. It is what tells us when something we are doing or something that is going on is not good for our general well being.

I see now that this is homework help... you probably don't want to discuss philosophy and psychology... but I will anyways.

I percieve pain to be an interpretation of the brain. The brain has been programmed to believe that when it feels these certain stimulants that it should tell the body to recoil. However, I also think the brain can be conditioned to react otherwise.

Actually that's obvious, because what some people fine painful, other people find pleasureable. Like spanking! Or other things, like hot hot water, or people that enjoy body piercing (though I think that particualr thing, in extremes, takes on negative cosmic energy... but that's another story.)

Also, pain can be repressed like priests of various spiritual disciplines that "rise above pain" and "mind over matter" and all that there.

so, to me, pain is in the brain and the brain alone, and meaning in the mind, or the perception.

Answer 2

Your nerve endings send a message to your brain which triggers the feeling

Answer 3

Your nerve endings feel the pain and send the message to your brain and this causes you to react with "owe" or flinching