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Another example is the same event being percieved as pleasure and pain by two different people.
Whenever we are influenced by something we give a responce.
Our concious mind has a rather limited say in this process. The reflexes, endorphins, homones, blood preasure, breathing, brain functions are all out of our control. Emotions are also a part of our natural responce mechanism.
I think emotions are nature's controls on our otherwise free concious mind. Focusing our minds on what we judge to be important. Prety hard to think about tommorows board meeting when you feel the pain of something crushing your foot. The anger in you prepares you for a possible upcomming confrontation in case you were assaulted.
Now we know the difference between pain of being crushed, squeezed, stabbed, pinched or having our ego's bruised. These are all necissary to fine tune our responce. Would be pretty silly to respond to a harsh word the same way you would respond to a punch. Thought there are similarities and this is why we would classify both as pain.
Conciously, pain is something you move away from and pleasure is something you strive to attain. This is a very natural self preservation device.
So, the mechanism for pleasure and pain are obviously the same however the total body reactions are very differnt.
Knowing this I think we can experience pleasure or pain if the other did not exist. Even though I did think otherwise about a year ago. I think that if you took your brain and body and removed all ability to experience either pain or pleasure your cognitive process would collapse. However a mind which never felt one but feels the other would probably feel right at home.
Those are my thought's.
Cheers.
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