Suffering Is A Mind Regulation Failure

Suffering results from one part of the mind failing to regulate another; pain and pleasure are learning signals sent from one brain part to another to improve performance, and suffering occurs when the trainer lacks a good model so the signal is cranked up but performance doesn't improve — meaning suffering happens at the boundary between self and world-model, is self-inflicted by the mind not the personal self, and can be turned off by gaining agency at the outer level where pain signals are created.