You ask most people about what causes pain and you’ll be given some sort of answer about damaged tissue, altered structures, and some derivatives of these. If you happen to ask someone who is “knowledgeable” you’ll probably get told about pain fibers or chemical markers like substance P. Pain is a topic that we have not had a great grasp of in the past and applied extreme reductionism to and disseminated a huge amount of misinformation on. Most of the public has little to no