Meanwhile pain, of both Aδ and C fiber transmission, is essentially unfiltered. You can perceive damage done to a single nociceptor.
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Your conscious awareness runs at about 16 bits per second. Normally, vision takes up almost half that.
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Pain dominates all other sense channels, numerically and neurologically. It can take up damn near the full stream.
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Chronic pain decimates working memory, destroys speech comprehension, interferes with visual processing & emotional expression.
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Chronic pain as little as a toothache, chews through the minute bandwidth of conscious awareness.
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It affects all levels of linguistic processing, from syntax to identification of emotional associations to comprehension.
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It makes you literally deafer, blinder, and less able to verbalize.
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This is because your nervous system is entirely optimized to transmit pain. Everything else is a side effect.
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Everything else is an encoding scheme to minimize the error rate of pain transmission both in real time and in memory recall.
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that's why I liked it, but see the comments by pain expert too 
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