Full Idea
Are pains only sensory events, or do they also have a motivational component (e.g. aversiveness)?
Gist of Idea
Are pains pure qualia, or do they motivate?
Source
Jaegwon Kim (Philosophy of Mind [1996], p. 7)
Book Reference
Kim,Jaegwon: 'Philosophy of Mind' [Westview 1998], p.7
A Reaction
A nice question. Given the occasional genuine masochist, and the way some people love tastes that others hate, it has always seemed to me that aversiveness was not a necessary property of pain. I couldn't train myself to like pain, though…
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