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[–] cynar@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Self hypnosis is a good example. You can cause large scale changes in mental feedback loops, with nothing but some effort and a guiding voice. It's to the point where people have had surgery without anesthetic. They used hypnosis to literally turn off pain.

I suspect most placebo effects work through the same pathways in the brain. The trick is tapping into them and creating a new stable feedback loop.