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...Medical School, explained, expectations might play a part in the perception of pain. In an email, Dr. Fields described the nervous system as unique in that it has what he called "intentionality." This philosophical term means, quite simply, that "it is about something other than itself." Specific neuronal impulses trigger perceptions that are then projected onto the body. "Your finger hurts," he wrote, "but really it is your brain that hurts...
...only that, but the perception of pain is "related to expectation and brain circuits that replicate past experiences." In more immediate terms, the sight of a fist coming toward your face might trigger the pain perception before the fist actually makes contact. Or, alternately, someone might be so ticklish that they don t even need to be touched to cringe. Even if they don t produce pain on their own, these neural patterns can "lower the stimulus intensity so that normally innocuous stimuli produce pain." In this model, Harvard students, aware of what they see as impending danger...
...They [the drunken listeners] are less inhibited," Maher says. "It takes one of those people to trigger everyone else, because everyone's caught in their own T world...
Craig took off his white baseball hat and hid it. When the killers walked by, they saw Isaiah and called him a "nigger." He pleaded with them not to shoot, just let him go home, he wanted his mom, and they pulled the trigger. Then they shot Matt. Craig, covered in his friends' blood, lay very, very still. As he told Katie Couric two mornings later, in an account almost unbearable to watch, Craig began praying for courage. "God told me to get out of there," he said. So he got up and started to run, yelling to others...
...blame for this and other agonizing splatter fests on pop culture. Adults look at the revenge fantasies their kids see in the 'plexes, listen (finally) to the more extreme music, glance over their kids' shoulders at Druid websites and think, "Seems repulsive to me. Maybe pop culture pulled the trigger...