#but yeah a tadpole could tunnel through the whole thing until it was swiss cheese and you would feel anything

[baejax-the-great]

This is of zero importance, but brains don't have any sensory capabilities in the organ proper. You can poke a brain, and while the owner would feel that its skin and maybe its skull were both broken in order for you to reach the squishy part, the brain itself would feel nothing because there is nothing for brains to be feeling on a day to day basis, so they lack any sensory organs.

Which is to say if there were a tadpole squirming in my brain and not, say, squirming on top of the dura mater, I would feel nothing. Zero awareness of it other than the massive brain damage its squirming would be doing depending on where it decided to squirm.

#bg3 #notes from your friendly neighborhood neuroscientist #now its possible the addition of a tadpole to your brain would increase pressure #and that can cause pain #but yeah a tadpole could tunnel through the whole thing until it was swiss cheese and you would feel anything #i mean other than you know whatever the fucked up consequences of that would be #ask to tag #because everything i wrote here was gross but idk what tag it would go under