Siri Hustvedt Mørch uses a thought experiment involving a girl named Maya, who has a congenital insensitivity to pain that is suddenly cured, to argue that pain has intrinsic phenomenal powers. Upon feeling pain for the first time after stepping on a nail, Maya would immediately understand that the sensation is repulsive and should be avoided, without needing to learn this through repeated associations.

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  Resolving the evolutionary paradox of consciousness

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• pain concept
• phenomenal powers view concept
• Maya entity