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Re:Electrons May Well Be Conscious by danans on Monday May 18, 2020 @10:48AM (#23223003)
> But how come people have different pain thresholds then?

Different signal sources and also differently configured/trained systems receiving and interpreting those signals.

But practically, it makes more sense to use the instrument already evolved and trained by their own experience to measure their pain: the person themselves.

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Re:Electrons May Well Be Conscious by disgruntledphd2 on Monday May 18, 2020 @12:19PM (#23224428)
> Different signal sources and also differently configured/trained systems receiving and interpreting those signals.

I think that this is a little too general a statement, given that it could be used to describe almost any human variability.

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