If I was in a vat and just a brain hooked to that electric impulse we call a heart. Then why cant I turn the pain off like a switch.. do I have to cross my legs sit Indian style like a monk of old. Clear and center my consciousness. Imagine being a brain in a fishbowl isolate the pain receptor and consume it. Then why these addiction if there simple illusions shouldnt the vanish upon observation? Maybe it did if this is the first time it's been observed as an illusion. Let's give it a try. Maybe will just wash away. True meditation in my mind.