<p dir="ltr">On Jun 14, 2016 2:43 PM, "Anders" <<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se">anders@aleph.se</a>> wrote:<br>
> Pain and suffering are different things: one is a sensory stimulus, the other is the aversive emotional reaction (which can be triggered by non-pain stimuli too). Pain is not bad in itself, but one can make a case that suffering is something that is inherently bad.</p>
<p dir="ltr">There is of course this old (by now) take on it:</p>
<p dir="ltr">"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."</p>
<p dir="ltr">I wonder if that still holds, given what has been discovered since that came out.</p>