I can detach my mind from the tickle compulsion. That doesn’t mean I can’t feel the fingers trying to tickle me.
Humans don’t learn to stop smelling, our brain automatically filters it out. Once you’re used to a smell you are unable to perceive it. Vulcan minds don’t do that, they have to actively disengage from the sensation.
Vulcans spend their whole life learning to detach their physical state from their mental.
Vulcans, can’t learn to stop smelling something.
I can detach my mind from the tickle compulsion. That doesn’t mean I can’t feel the fingers trying to tickle me.
Humans don’t learn to stop smelling, our brain automatically filters it out. Once you’re used to a smell you are unable to perceive it. Vulcan minds don’t do that, they have to actively disengage from the sensation.