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Originally Posted by Hilary  A baby with colic is in pain, and wails. Does the baby know it's experiencing pain? We can't tell, of course, but I would guess that it doesn't know, it just experiences it. |
It does not know that it is experiencing pain because it has no reason for it. It is just the body that is reacting to certain stimuli. Your experience of pain arrives later when you somehow learn that this is pain, this is pleasure and you make a distinction. This is when then experience appears in your conciousness.
Just to let you understand my concept better, consider this:
When the body is in either pain or in pleasure it
groans.
The reaction is the same.
It is you that is making the distinction between these two sensations.
You consider this pain and that pleasure because of the knowledge that is imposed on you. You create labels and say pain is bad, pleasure is good. It is like this with everything you have in your head.