2018
DOI: 10.1007/s10670-018-0044-2
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No Pain, No Gain (in Darwinian Fitness): A Representational Account of Affective Experience

Abstract: Reductive representationalist theories of consciousness are yet to produce a satisfying account of pain's affective component, the part that makes it painful. The paramount problem here is that that there seems to be no suitable candidate for what affective experience represents. This article suggests that affective experience represents the Darwinian fitness effects of events (roughly, the effects that an event has on a creature's chances of propagating its genes). I argue that, because of affective experienc… Show more

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“…For instance, subjects presenting with pain asymbolia ( Berthier et al 1988 ; see Klein 2015 ; Gerrans 2020 for recent discussions) report registering the pain but not “minding” it. This condition can be brought about by a surgical alteration of brain connectivity ( Carruthers 2018 ; Kozuch 2020 ). Here is how Kozuch (2020 , p.695) describes pain asymbolia resulting from a surgical intervention: “That pain has both sensory and affective components is something vividly demonstrated in the effects of a cingulotomy (removal of the anterior cingulate cortex), an operation performed on patients with chronic, excruciating pain.…”
Section: Phenomenality Feelings and Painmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…For instance, subjects presenting with pain asymbolia ( Berthier et al 1988 ; see Klein 2015 ; Gerrans 2020 for recent discussions) report registering the pain but not “minding” it. This condition can be brought about by a surgical alteration of brain connectivity ( Carruthers 2018 ; Kozuch 2020 ). Here is how Kozuch (2020 , p.695) describes pain asymbolia resulting from a surgical intervention: “That pain has both sensory and affective components is something vividly demonstrated in the effects of a cingulotomy (removal of the anterior cingulate cortex), an operation performed on patients with chronic, excruciating pain.…”
Section: Phenomenality Feelings and Painmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This condition can be brought about by a surgical alteration of brain connectivity ( Carruthers 2018 ; Kozuch 2020 ). Here is how Kozuch (2020 , p.695) describes pain asymbolia resulting from a surgical intervention: “That pain has both sensory and affective components is something vividly demonstrated in the effects of a cingulotomy (removal of the anterior cingulate cortex), an operation performed on patients with chronic, excruciating pain. After the operation, patients say that they still feel the pain (i.e., they have the sensory component), but that they do not mind it (i.e., they lack the affective component)[.…”
Section: Phenomenality Feelings and Painmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…For instance, subjects presenting with pain asymbolia (Berthier et al, 1988; see Klein, 2015;Gerrans, 2020 for recent discussions) report registering the pain but not "minding" it. This condition can be brought about by a surgical alteration of brain connectivity (Carruthers, 2018;Kozuch, 2020). Here is how Kozuch (2020, p.695) describes pain asymbolia resulting from a surgical intervention: "That pain has both sensory and affective components is something vividly demonstrated in the effects of a cingulotomy (removal of the anterior cingulate cortex), an operation performed on patients with chronic, excruciating pain.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%