Task: Class Definition Understanding (ontology: Human_Society/EmotionOntology)

Which of the following definitions best describes 'feeling of pain'?

A. A subjective affective feeling that involves a subjective experience of an impulse to engage in a behaviour.
B. A subjective affective feeling in an organism S, involving two integrated levels: 
(a) activation of the nociceptive system and associated emotion generating brain components of S, and 
(b) a simultaneous aversive sensory and emotional experience on the part of S, where (b) is phenomenologically similar to the sort of aversive experience involved in pain with concordant tissue damage.
C. A subjective affective feeling that involves attraction to an imagined state of affairs.
D. A subjective affective feeling that is positively valenced.

Answer: A subjective affective feeling in an organism S, involving two integrated levels: 
(a) activation of the nociceptive system and associated emotion generating brain components of S, and 
(b) a simultaneous aversive sensory and emotional experience on the part of S, where (b) is phenomenologically similar to the sort of aversive experience involved in pain with concordant tissue damage.