{"id":36278,"date":"2011-06-19T15:46:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T15:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/fighting-the-pain-my-new-column-for-discover-the-loom\/"},"modified":"2011-06-19T15:46:24","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T15:46:24","slug":"fighting-the-pain-my-new-column-for-discover-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/fighting-the-pain-my-new-column-for-discover-the-loom.php","title":{"rendered":"Fighting the Pain: My new column for Discover | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/62198_pain600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4633\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/62198_pain600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"317\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>Pain is a paradox. It feels like the most real, objective experience we can have, and yet it can be weirdly malleable. It&rsquo;s better to think of pain, like memory or vision, not as a simple reflection of the world, but as a strategy we&rsquo;ve evolved to stay alive. Thinking this way can help make sense of the awful experience of chronic pain, when this urgent signal refers to nothing except a brain caught in its own feedback loops. In <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2011\/jun\/26-the-brain-tiny-key-to-terrible-lock\">my latest column<\/a> for <em>Discover<\/em>, I take a look at the latest understanding of pain, and some promising research that uses these insights to search for a new, more rational pain-killer. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2011\/jun\/26-the-brain-tiny-key-to-terrible-lock\">Check it out.<\/a><\/p><p><em>[Image: <\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.philamuseum.org\/collections\/permanent\/124792.html\"><em>Boy With A Rooster by Adriano Cecioni, 1868<\/em><\/a><em>. Photo from Kate<\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/67637588@N00\/365288042\"><em> Eliot\/Flickr via Creative Commons License<\/em><\/a><em>]<\/em><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/PECcbL0vZAeCl52teNG4vBHWozo\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/62198_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/PECcbL0vZAeCl52teNG4vBHWozo\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/62198_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/62198_29-cIglwILY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/62198_GEleXwtdsIo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pain is a paradox. It feels like the most real, objective experience we can have, and yet it can be weirdly malleable. It&rsquo;s better to think of pain, like memory or vision, not as a simple reflection of the world, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/fighting-the-pain-my-new-column-for-discover-the-loom.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}