“strong negative valence” appears to circumscribe exactly those cognitive events we might want to call “suffering”.
The advantage of defining suffering as one end of the valence scale (and presumably joy as the other end) is that it creates a scale.
It doesn’t define anything really though.
They do spend considerable time discussing that in the article
I got the article now.
The advantage of defining suffering as one end of the valence scale (and presumably joy as the other end) is that it creates a scale. It doesn’t define anything really though.
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