What proportion of the nervous system can feel pain?

What proportion of the nervous system can feel pain?

As you already know, there is an incredible communication system in your body called the nervous system. This system is made up of several parts. For example, the autonomic nervous system is responsible for controlling all the organs in the body, the motor nervous system controls muscle movement, and the sensory nervous system allows us to feel sensations (heat, cold, pain, etc.)

The sensory nervous system only constitutes 11% of the total nerves in our body; in other words, only 11% of your nervous system is capable of feeling pain (the remaining 89% controls the rest of your body’s functions).