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p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;">Colloquially, "in your head" signifies that construct—the self, the consciousness— that you do not accept as a real thing.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">If one were to be charitable, one might interpret the sentence as "it is not psychosomatic." Reason being pain results in signals in both the body and the brain, so it is a phenomenon in the 'physical world of electrons and neurons' as well as the 'physical world of the flesh'.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">But why be charitable?<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">davew<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div>On Tue, Oct 18, 2022, at 12:44 PM, <a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style="overflow-wrap:break-word;"><div class="qt-WordSection1"><p class="qt-MsoNormal">A highly regarded pain expert, Dr. Carmen Green, talking about chronic pain on the pod cast of an equally highly regarded neurosurgeon, Dr. Sanjay Gupta:<br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><b><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:Algerian;"><span class="size" style="font-size:14pt;">“… pain is also perceived in the brain, so it’s not only in your head.”</span></span></span></b><br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal">Nick Thompson<br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com">ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</a><br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</a><br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p></div><div>-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. .<br></div><div>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br></div><div>Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom <a href="https://bit.ly/virtualfriam">https://bit.ly/virtualfriam</a><br></div><div>to (un)subscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</a><br></div><div>FRIAM-COMIC <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/">http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</a><br></div><div>archives: 5/2017 thru present <a href="https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/">https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/</a><br></div><div> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 <a href="http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/">http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/</a><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div></body></html>