Should it pop up again if pain increases from mild to strong? Should it pop up periodically when pain is extreme?
I'd rather prefer to consciously disable drive to remove pain source, but stay informed of kind and intensity of pain.
Edit: AFAIK insects use that kind of pain processing, they react on pain, but they don't get overwhelmed by it.
Sure. The analogy to computers is not a perfect one, because brains don't function like modern computer operating systems. My objection to pain is not that it is uninformative, it's that it's overwhelmingly unpleasant even when we do not wish it to be.
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