Pain is like intuition

Stick with me I just made this up today with my intuition.  Intuition is defined as “the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning”  So you could say intuition is unconscious or at the very least autonomic

“Pain depends upon the brain evaluating a massive amount of information, including danger data from the danger detection system, but also cognitive data (for example expectations, previous exposure, cultural and social norms, beliefs – the context is critical and other sensory data (for example that from vision, or that from other sensors in the area).”  So you could say pain is unconscious or at the very least autonomic

What if we just replaced pain & intuition in these statements though!

Intuition Pain is defined as “the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning”  This make senses b/c your brain is sending an immediate protective output for you to understand that something is wrong & just like with intuition it may happen so fast you don’t fully understand how or why it happened that way yet.  Your brain doesn’t need you to understand why just that you need to change something.

“Pain Intuition depends upon the brain evaluating a massive amount of information, including danger data from the danger detection system, but also cognitive data (for example expectations, previous exposure, cultural and social norms, beliefs – the context is critical and other sensory data (for example that from vision, or that from other sensors in the area).”  

Intuition is somewhat mysterious so maybe it does take sensory information into account also.  For example, say you SEE that your friend is in pain or sad or angry just by the expression on their face.  You quickly evaluate how they are feeling and within a second or two you come up with some new & powerful life meaning metaphor you never thought of before to console them in their given situation.  I’d argue intuition is unconsciously evaluating all your previous experience & sensory data including vision just like pain does.

Please take time to read this short article from one of the top researchers in the world on modern pain neuroscience.  Pain education is crucial for anyone in pain. What is Pain” Lorimer Moseley https://bodyinmind.org/what-is-pain/