lukeprog comments on Suffering as attention-allocational conflict - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lukeprog 24 May 2011 04:30:15PM 1 point [-]

I'm sure the neurophysiology of pain has some insight to offer as to whether or not this hypothesis is correct, but I haven't read enough to know. Bud Craig is one of the major researchers in this area. His paper on pain as a homeostatic emotion is here, but it's kinda old now (2003).