Tracking representationalism explains the negative affective character of pain, and its capacity to motivate action, by reference to the representation of the badness for us of bodily damage. I argue that there is a more fitting instantiation of the tracking relation – the badness for us of extremely intense stimuli – and use this to motivate a non‐reductive approach to the negative affective character of pain. The view of pain proposed here is supported by consideration of three related topics: the pain caused when the body is damaged, reparative pain and the messenger‐shooting objection to tracking representationalism.

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疼痛体验的内容与特点

追踪表征主义通过参考身体损伤对我们的不良表征来解释疼痛的负面情感特征及其激发行动的能力。我认为跟踪关系有一个更合适的实例——极端强烈刺激对我们的坏处——并用它来激发对疼痛的负面情感特征的非还原性方法。这里提出的疼痛观点得到了对三个相关主题的考虑的支持：身体受损时引起的疼痛、修复性疼痛和信使反对追踪表征主义。