In a series of lab experiments, researchers in Europe found that a patient's expectations about the effectiveness of a pain drug appear to override the properties of the drug itself.How does this fit into the four-domain model? So, the human system is split into four physical domains: body, environment, memes, and ames. These domains interact and the changes in the domains are behaviours, like feeling less pain. The drug does its part by changing the body, but which domains does the positive thinking affect? I would say that specific memes and ames reduce pain. For example, the person with the higher expectation might have memes like "This pain killer will reduce my pain". But the person might also have positive association to the stimulus "pain killer". Both, the meme and the ame, are activated during information processes in the brain when the signal, reduced by the drug, enters the brain. They lead to a reduction in pain.
Here is an analogy from a big city. High crime levels cause pain to the government. The drug "more police officers" is administrated. The drug has slightly reduced the number of crimes being reported. Moreover, the government strongly believes in the drug, and has memes like "More police means less crime". And ames like a positive association to the sight of police officers. The government will perceive much more pain reduction than just the slight drop in crime rate, because their memes and ames shift the interpretation of the policy. Imagine they did not believe in the meme "More police less crime". They will still feel the pain because they just see a slight decrease.
What I am saying it that the information stored in one's person affects a person's pain level.
