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| Physical endurance and being unaffected by pain are often pictured by science-fiction and fantasy literature as the two entwined elements. Toghether they define what we call invincibilty. However the Daodan has not to be considered really so ''invincible''. It may be better considered as an enhanced organism where new faculties are given an human shape. At this regard, in Akira movie ( I cannot recall the passage in the manga) there is a well fitting passage where two characters question about what an amoeba might do if provided with the faculties of a human being. Put in other terms, all that an ameba can do is eating, but what might happen if the amoeba were given the ability to produce effects at the same extent the actions of a human being have? This metaphor shows very well what a daodan (and in parallel akira) are: the principle of human body remains the same, its actions are qualitatively quite the same, however the size and the impact of these actions are completely different. The enlargment of the scope and size of impacts are also a way to caricaturize what true humanity is... but I am losing focus.
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| :So I'd rather suggest that an improved body may feature the same ability to sense or perceive, if not even an improved one.
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| In this second case, pain is a big inconvenient for a resilient body. The higher is your resistence, the more you will endure pain. The level of pain is often associated to the level of physical stress: when the stress is demanding too much from a body, that organism will ultimately die. This principle is countered only by torture which is a technique or discipline (a deranged one) of generating the highest amount of pain with the lowest level of physical stress. But since we are not referring to torture but to the usual accidents causing pain or harm, we have to imagine that pain and physical stress are two effects somehow connected.
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| In practice our bodies are able to survive a stress only up to a given level. When this level is reached we may easily die. By consequence there are levels of pain we may never experience in our life (or levels of pain no one in history has ever experienced): or we die, or our organism produces a particular response that we call losing counsciousness. Now consider a body with an enhanced level of endurance: still its structure and functioning are similar to ours, however this body is able to resist in situations beyond common survival. What I am trying to say that Konoko has experienced pain more than anyone else (see acid bath), and similarly Mukade (see recovering form brocken neck).
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| Which is the maximum level? The level of pain caused by a stress a Daodan cannot withstand (nuke bombings? no athmosperic pressure? a powerful ten days long acid bath? laser surgery dissectioning?)
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| on a relative scale: two stabs in Konoko's belly are a relatively low stress for a Daodan improved body and its self-healing capabilities. In absolute scale the perceived pain is equal to the pain experienced by a common individual. | |
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| ::[[User:Guido|guido]] 00:09, 29 November 2006 (CET)
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