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Re:Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Compute by 21 on Thursday May 04, 2017 @04:21PM (#14268424)
Neurons don't feel pain either.

In fact, the whole brain doesn't have pain receptors, which is why you can do surgery on it while the patient is awake.

Re:Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Compute by shostack on Friday May 05, 2017 @02:40AM (#14271545)
So what is the concept of pain then from the brains perspective? Because it clearly knows when something hurts.