Tangentially and more generally, it seems to completely ignore that the hard problem of consciousness is unsolved and the mainstream idea of causality pointing from material world to consciousness—X is wrong with your body, hence neurons fire, hence you feel pain—is essentially an unprovable conjecture.
When it somehow works, it is very good at creating an impression that we know what we are doing, but it strikes me at being more or less in shambles at some fundamental level.
I'm currently in one of my bi-annual cycles and this one is particularly nasty. 800mg ibuprofen + 1500mg of acetaminophen + 10mg cyclobenzaprine every four hours was doing absolutely nothing for the symptoms. I ended up trying every other remedy under the sun including epsom salt baths, Tiger Balm, etc., for relief. What worked? CBD balm.
I don't believe in anything that can be attributed to the placebo effect and that's what I consider remedies like CBD balm. But, it worked and I am going to run w/it. I wish it were easier than me having to fork over $30 for snake oil to trick my body into a positive response but here we are.