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Pain as a Perceptual Experience

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Human perception has been likened to a hologram. A hologram exists by converging two or more laser beams together, producing a three-dimensional vision that is very real, but doesn’t really exist. You can put your hand right through a hologram, yet it is quite visible and not disturbed by your hand. The more laser beams we add to the hologram, the richer the vision. This analogy is often used to address human perception. What our brain creates as a perception and how we project these perceptions onto the outside world are called qualia. The qualia we call our conscious experience of pain cannot be fully explained by neurophysiological events only. Some qualia, or perceptions, can be up to 90 % memory. Thus, our qualia are produced by a dynamic interaction between mind and brain and most likely through the mechanics of quantum physics.

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Ray, A.L., Ullmann, R., Francis, M.C. (2015). Pain as a Perceptual Experience. In: Deer, T., Leong, M., Ray, A. (eds) Treatment of Chronic Pain by Integrative Approaches. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1821-8_1

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