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This is a nocebo effect. The two things you just described aren’t even in the same ballpark of RF frequency. The brain doesn’t have any way of measuring pain; let alone temperature. Brain surgery can be done with the patient awake in desirable situations as a direct result of this.



> The brain doesn’t have any way of measuring pain

Wait, what about headaches?


Nerves around the brain, rather than the brain itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headache#Pathophysiology


The brain does not have pain receptors, but the head and the neck have lots.




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