What causes physical pain? Why do cuts hurt?

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What is it that makes a cut in your skin feel painful? Such as a paper cut or a cut with a knife. Why does this register as pain?

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Your brain receives a signal from a nerve that it’s been damaged, so it alerts you by putting pain there. The pain is uncomfortable so you have an incentive to figure out the cause an stop it.

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