Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2019 2:01:13 GMT
If you have all your basic needs met (food, shelter, clothing), and you're not more or less in a state of perpetual awe at the mystery of existence itself, you're unconscious. If you have no sense of wonder anymore, and the Universe ceases to be a source of mystery and magic, you're unconscious.
Not believing everything is 'real' doesn't mean I'm not susceptible to feeling nerve impulses while I'm trapped in this biological organism. That said, my dentist has at least two clients that decline all freezing when getting painful dental procedures done. He says they meditate a lot and one is a Buddhist.
Maybe they'd let you go hit them in the face with a hammer?
Feeling physical pain doesn't necessitate the belief that 'the suffering is indeed real'. You feel pain in a dream when you're getting hurt, the pain feels real and the dream environment can feel as real as this one.. but then you wake up. If you're not the body, then any pains that happen to the body are temporary and do not happen to you.