Not really.  Try this experiment: hit yourself on the head with a sledgehammer and then try to &quot;interpret&quot; the pain as something else (eating chocolate, say) or just &quot;disregard&quot; it.  You&#x27;ll find it&#x27;s not so easy.<p>In fact, you already know that I&#x27;m right about this.  You are in fact so convinced that I am right that you will not try this experiment.  How do I know this?  Because millions of years of evolution has hard-wired this understanding of pain into your brain.  Anyone who doesn&#x27;t have this understanding hard-wired into their brains tends not to survive because they end up doing stupid things like hitting themselves on the head with sledgehammers just to see what will happen.  In fact, there are a very few people who can&#x27;t feel pain.  It&#x27;s a very serious problem.  They have to be extremely careful because they can easily sustain life-threatening injuries and not realize it.