Comments by "" (@josephcoon5809) on "The Anatomy of Pain" video.

0:30 “Transmission and the processing of painful stimuli…” I think it should be emphasized that “pain” is processed in the brain, mainly by the primary somatosensory cortex. Everything before that processing is not pain. It is pathology and signal transmission. A break in any part of the chain originating at the location of the pathos and culminating in the thalamus will prevent that sensation of pain. This can be anything from neurotransmitter interruption to axonal charge interruption to flat out neuropathy. Radio Frequency Ablation is a process that should be investigated more to address the pharmaceutical epidemic this world is suffering from. 1:00 You don’t feel pain in your peripheral nervous system. You only feel it in the primary somatosensory cortex. The afferent nervous system merely transmits information that is processed as “pain” in the PSC. It’s the same thing as light interacting with photoreceptors in the retina and the visual pathway transmitting that data to the visual cortex to be processed as “colors” which the prefrontal cortex perceives. 10:40 A hub is a passive networking device. A router would be a more accurate analogy for the thalamus. 11:30 Fun fact: neurons in the PSC have to migrate and learn to code when a limb is severed because for a neuron to remain alive, it HAS to receive data. Being unable to receive data from neurons that no longer exist, the respective neurons in the PSC must find a new source of data. This is the process that leads to phantom limb syndrome. 11:45 All neurons and neuronal groups have varying degrees of conscious awareness. The more summarized information a neuron or neuronal group has access to, the higher the level of consciousness it can achieve. It is the same as twenty associates each having a conscious awareness of their individual tasks while the summary of their work transmitted to their SUPERvisor provides the SUPERvisor with a SUPER conscious awareness relative to their SUBordinates. The tasks handled by the associates are Subconscious to the SUPERvisor. That’s why I disapprove of the term “unconscious awareness” because the awareness is conscious to subordinate neuronal groups but subconscious to the prefrontal cortex. 13:00 More accurately, I would say that the limbic system is how value is assigned to ideas. Without the limbic system, all ideas have the same value which makes decision-making impossible. 16:00 Here’s another thought that will blow your mind: the way that neurons are organized in the brain is the blueprint for the most efficient and moral form of government known to humans. If humans learned to organize like neurons do, the world would be far better off. 17:00 You should talk about Radio Frequency Ablation…if your overlords allow it. 17:30 Pain IS entirely in your mind. The mind is the psychological manifestation of the brain’s physiological processes. Pain IS imaginary. Damage is real. 18:00 “Sometimes those neurons can fire…” How? By migrating to still active networks and learning to code for those active networks. For instance, the neurons responsible for the hand are mapped next to the neurons mapped next to the face. Once those “hand” neurons migrate to the “face” neurons in the PSC, any sensation (physical) in the face results in perception (metaphysical) in the “face” and “hand.”
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