Dax Shepard
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Allstate North American Insurance Co.
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We want to think it's a subjective thing.
It sends a signal.
The signal itself is pain.
No, the signal's not.
It goes into the computer and the computer interprets and comes to a conclusion.
If I could give you a grade, you would get A++.
Oh, thank you.
But that's the thing we don't know.
Even now, if you Google what a nociceptor is, a nociceptor are the neurons that live in your body, in your tissues, in your skin, your organs, and they feed information about potential danger to your brain.
Potential danger.
But if you look it up, you're gonna be told that it's a pain receptor.
It makes me crazy.
That is sensory data.
Sensory data isn't pain until it reaches the brain
And the brain uses all available information to decide whether or not to make pain and how much.
So it isn't a pain receptor.
It's like temperature.