On: Electrons May Well Be Conscious

[danans]

> 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.

[disgruntledphd2 → danans]

> 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.