Wikler D
Ciba Found Symp. 1979(69):315-33. doi: 10.1002/9780470720523.ch19.
There has been considerable philosophical debate over whether pain is a form of perception. A point of controversy is what pain is perception of; the best answer is neither pain-causing stimuli nor pain sensation but injury or the threat thereof. This answers the argument that pain cannot be perception because its 'objects' are private and exist only when perceived. A more potent argument is that pain is too poorly correlated with injury to count as perception of it. This issue is to be settled, in part, by determining the function of pain. The standard view of pain's function has here been contested and the resolution of the controversy will affect our inclination to ascribe to pain the status of perceptual faculty.
关于疼痛是否为一种感知形式，一直存在着大量的哲学争论。一个争议点在于疼痛是对什么的感知；最佳答案既不是引起疼痛的刺激，也不是疼痛感觉，而是损伤或损伤的威胁。这回应了那种认为疼痛不可能是感知的观点，因为其“对象”是私密的，且仅在被感知时才存在。一个更有力的论点是，疼痛与损伤的关联太过微弱，不足以算作是对损伤的感知。这个问题部分要通过确定疼痛的功能来解决。这里对疼痛功能的标准观点提出了质疑，而这场争议的解决将影响我们赋予疼痛感知官能地位的倾向。
