Debug Your Pain
by Max Shen
Chronic pain is one of the most widespread forms of human suffering, and one of the least understood. Debug Your Pain starts from a provocative premise: that much of persistent pain is not a faithful report of tissue damage but a prediction the brain has learned to make, and that predictions can be unlearned.
This expedition helps people resolve chronic pain by changing our understanding of what pain actually is. By treating pain as information to be debugged rather than a fixed sentence to be endured, it opens a path toward relief that does not depend on masking symptoms.
Keywords
- Chronic pain
- Neuroscience
- Predictive processing
- Somatics
- Self-experimentation
Character
Exploratory
Amount granted
$3,000
Year
2026
Sourcing channel
Scouted