Why pain has levels how does body work and why do we feel like the leg fracture I had last week wasn’t that painful like the hand fracture I have right now . And why emotional pain is more hurtful than the physical pain even it doesn’t hurt in body ?
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Human brains aren’t binary. They work off thresholds. They get signals and give signals differently based on hormone amounts, signal levels and other conditions.
Basically different hormone levels and signals cause nerves to behave in a certain way. One cell can have many different responses to stimuli.
It is better to imagine every brain cell as a small computer. That considers the inputs and conditions around it that then reaches a conclusion and gives a signal.
Emotional pain is generally worse than physical because we are social animals. Also there are many kinds of emotional pains. We don’t know how or why we evolved them, but it regulated our behaviour in a way that directs our behaviour towards beneficial behavior for our survival. Humans shouldn’t be only considered as individuals, but as part of a group, because a lot of our behaviour revolves around being social.
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