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Long lasting and/or repetitive pain over years leads to profound functional as well as structural changes in the brain networks, reflecting maladaptive plasticity at several levels of the neuraxis and especially the cortex.

What I likely underestimate is my own vulnerability to this technology. The psychological and neurological mechanisms that sort real from imagined [...] don’t always check in with the part of you that might know better. They don’t consult your AI literacy or your PhD or your healthy skepticism about OpenAI’s privacy policy. They run underneath all of that, and they trust pictures.