Mind Reading: "Unlearning" Pain.

http://healthland.time.com/2011/02/02/mind-reading-neuroscientist-v-s-ramachandran-on-unlearning-pain/

This articles is about the now widely accepted process of mirror neurons. Before mirror neurons, there was something called mirror therapy. This is when a mirror is placed so that the existing limb looks as if it is the missing one, which helped the pain that is in the missing limb. A patient with a phantom limb can feel the touch when a different person was touched. This article explain why unlearning pain is possible. Vision is a large part of that.

Questions:

Even though there is no pain, does that mean it is necessarily good or better?

Could this method of mirror neurons be used for other purposes or pains?

If vision can make pain disappear, does this show that out brain believes what we see?