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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolv0rine" data-source="post: 664027" data-attributes="member: 9045">Hmm, then you've missed something.  There are innumberable cases of people who can, quite simply, block off their awareness of pain as transmitted by their neural network.  These people can chose not to experience physical pain.  Now I highly doub these people go through their every waking moment in a state such as this, I'm actually quite sure they don't as I've known more than one personally.  But the ability is inherent in the human mind, the mind does possess the ability to chose which neural inpulses to take notice of, and which to ignore.  It's just that that is not the default state we operate in, and most people will never manage that degree of control over their own processes.Myself, I fall somewhere in the middle between Mr. Browning and yourself.  I am aware of the ideas being talked about, and have been since I was around 8 years old.  I have always been mildly interested in the conscious control of physical pain (and once in a great while, I attempt to practice them).  Emotional response, on the other hand, is a differently colored horse.  Emotional responses have a connection with personality, and with one's sense of self, and as such any topic dealing with them is inherently more touchy than one dealing with physical responses.  People tend to get more defensive, faster, on the topic of emotions.  I do not find mr. browning's philosophy to my personal liking, because it takes the idea farther than I find personally attractive.  This doesn't say anything about him, or how he takes his philosphy, he can do as he pleases, I presume he's an adult.  He's also obviously not unintelligent, and I have enjoyed bantering with him because of that.  But to say that such things do not exist is, well..  incorrect.  It's not a matter of opinion, it's all quite easilly proven in laboratory condintions.  I'd be vastly surprised if it indeed has not been done under lab conditions, more than once.  It was quite the in vogue topic in science at one point or another.  I'm sure I've seen articles on the topic in various science mags I've leafed through in doctors' offices.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Ermm, which social implications are those?  Have we gone full-circle and returned to the "You're unbalanced, and a danger to people at large" again?  I hope not.</blockquote>

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