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The way our brains work is vastly different from the way our minds work. Different in the same way that physics differs from philosophy. Different like mainstream science differs from religion. Different, just as language differs from art. Both are perspectives of reality, frameworks of comprehension, perceptions of truth, frames of reference, vocabularies, doctrines, beliefs, ideas.

Pain is a notification. A signal communicating information to the authority. If it were not unpleasant, how would we as unreasoning beings learn to avoid things that cause it? An alarm that fails to alert fails to function. Understanding pain offers us the option to dismiss it. Acceptance of risk permits us to override the signal. Until the threshold of the accepted risk level, we endure it. Determination to sacrifice oneself provides proportional immunity to pain.