[ExI] Circumcision

[BillK]

On 15 June 2016 at 22:06, Anders Sandberg wrote:
> On 2016-06-15 20:03, Adrian Tymes wrote:
>>
>> There is of course this old (by now) take on it:
>>
>> "What do I care for your suffering?  Pain, even agony, is no more than
>> information before the senses, data fed to the computer of the mind.  The
>> lesson is simple: you have received the information, now act on it.  Take
>> control of the input and you shall become master of the output."
>
>
> Psychological pain management can be associative or dissociative. The
> dissociative approach is to ignore the pain and think about or do other
> things. Associative pain management on the other hand involves focusing on
> the pain and re-evaluating it so that it does not cause suffering. You could
> say you mindfully concentrate on it until it loses meaning.
>
> Or as brother Lal would say:
> Once a man has changed the relationship between himself and his environment,
> he cannot return to the blissful ignorance he left. Motion, of necessity,
> involves a change in perspective.
>


I have the feeling that all this philosophising about pain and
suffering is all very well and good.
But it will get thrown out as soon as raging toothache, bad migraine
or gallstone blockage pain arrives.

When you are writhing in pain, screaming for codeine, philosophy
somehow doesn't seem that important.  ;)

BillK