Conceptions of reality and the experience of pain: Comment on “Facing the experience of pain: A neuropsychological perspective” by Fabbro and Crescentini

The paper is a commentary on a study by Fabbro and Crescentini concerning the experience of pain, the effects of meditation on pain, the neurological underpinning of those phenomena and the clinical deployment of meditation techniques. The paper discusses the importance that conception of reality hold by subjects might have on their conceptualization of pain, and the epistemological consequences thereof.