I’ve never really come to terms with the fact that I inhabit a physical body with a spatially distributed nervous system. I get that there are evolutionary and practical reasons to feel pain and touch in general, but I wish those feelings weren’t so deeply rooted in my brain. For example, if you bump into me, I’m probably going to lose my train of thought. Actually, I’m probably going to feel the “aftershocks” of that random touch for the next few seconds, and my brain is going to focus all its attention on that area and making sure it doesn’t get touched again.

It’s as if touch gets first class treatment above all other senses. Even then, all my senses are just sending in too much information for me to handle.

I would rather be “just a brain” if such a thing made physical sense. I can do all the “brain work” I could possibly ever desire, but even ordinary office work just doesn’t feel good at all, let alone any physically demanding work.