On 6/18/07, Charles D Hixson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Consider a terminal cancer patient. It's not the actual weighing that causes consciousness of pain, it's the implementation which normally allows such weighing. This, in my opinion, *is* a design flaw. Your original statement is a more useful implementation. When it's impossible to do anything about the pain, one *should* be able to "turn it off". Unfortunately, this was not evolved. After all, you might be wrong about not being able to do anything about it, so we evolved such that pain beyond a certain point cannot be ignored. (Possibly some with advanced training and several years devoted to the mastery of sensation [e.g. yoga practitioners] may be able to ignore such pain. I'm not convinced, and would consider experiments to obtain proof to be unethical. And, in any case, they don't argue against my point.)
I'm pretty convinced: http://www.geocities.com/tcartz/sacrifice.htm (although admitted they could have taken some kind of drug, but I doubt it) J ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e
