Definition of pain (English version)
DEFINITION OF PAIN BASED ON INTROSPECTIVE PHILOSOPHY Davide Corvi Palliative Care Physician Gruppo Don Gnocchi Monza davidecorvi@gmail.com ABSTRACT An analysis of recent attempts to define the word “ pain ” shows that ideas coming from pathophysiological world has been associated to psychologic-introspective ideas. This choice, and also some logic errors (mainly the hidden presence of the term inside the definition itself) make these attempts unsatisfactory, cause they miss logical and philosophycal accuracy. We propose a new definition ( “ pain is simultaneous arising of a bodily sensation and a a volitive avoidant thought, connected by a causal link ” ), which appear more fruitful. The author discomposes conscious phenomena into their indivisible constituents (called “ mental atoms ” ), which are phenomena that can ’ t be broken up into more basic conscious phenomena and proposes ...