"Benjamin" <Benjamin@verizon.net> wrote in message 
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>> On Feb 10, 7:58 pm, "Benjamin" <Benja...@verizon.net> wrote:
>>> [...]
> [...]

> "Pain" and the underlying neural damage
> are often correlated but are actually two
> different things.
> [...]

It's 'funny' -- even while I was writing my
prior post, I was 'thinking' about indiv-
iduals who, because their nervous sys-
tems do not include 'normal' "pain" func-
tionality, often severely injure themselves
because they 'just' don't experience "pain".
After posting, I saw that I had to address
this circumstance which was not addressed
in my prior discussions in this thread.

All of this can be strongly-resolved, non-
invasively, by comparing myographic-
array data between subjects who lack
'normal' "pain" functionality and 'normal'
subjects.

The myographic-array data [of course]
conforms to muscle activations, but,
as I've discussed, muscle activations
are strongly-correlated to 'normal' "pain"
functionality -- so, with NDT's synthesis
in-hand, the myographic-array data is
sufficient to answer questions like this
one.

Myographic-array diagnosis [MAD :-]
can be of enormous usefulness, with
respect to =all= macroscopic neural
considerations because there's actually
no 'dividing-line' between "sensory" and
"motor" neural dynamics -- look at the
"motor" 'side', and one can simultan-
eously see into the "sensory" 'side' [of
course, like with respect to any other
approach the neural dynamics, the
more-dense the array, the greater the
resolution of the data and the better
the "seeing".]

With specific respect to the above ap-
plication, one will literally be able to
see the internal nervous system dif-
ferences between the two subject
classes -- which encompasses the
whole problem.

ken