The Sensation and the Emotion


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Pain as a sensation. Pain as an emotion (an emotion creates a motivation) vs pain as an emergency signal vs pain as unpleasant sensations. What are the motivations caused by pain? Is the pain the problem?

Note Text: 1683 Body state usually in background

As far as the current moment is concerned, my idea is that images of body state are in the background, usually unattended but ready to spring forward. [Then pain is an instruction or at least a suggestion, that the body be attended to.]

Damasio, Antonio R., "Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain", Penguin Books, 1994, 234

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