The(avowedly simplistic) example of a functional theory of pain Pain is the state that tends to be caused by bodily injury, to produce the belief that something is wrong with the body and the desire to be out of that state, to produce anxiety, and, in the absence of any stronger, conflicting desires, to cause wincing or moaning As noted earlier, if in humans this functional role is played by C-fiber stimulation, then, according to this functionalist namely, what is the property of pain itself? Is it the highe: 5 A theory, humans can be in pain simply by undergoing C-fibe stimulation. But there is a further question to be answered level relational property of being in some state or other that plays the"pain role" in the theory, or the C-fiber stimulation that actually plays this role?The (avowedly simplistic) example of a functional theory of pain  Pain is the state that tends to be caused by bodily injury, to produce the belief that something is wrong with the body and the desire to be out of that state, to produce anxiety, and, in the absence of any stronger, conflicting desires, to cause wincing or moaning.  As noted earlier, if in humans this functional role is played by C-fiber stimulation, then, according to this functionalist theory, humans can be in pain simply by undergoing C-fiber stimulation. But there is a further question to be answered, namely, what is the property of pain itself? Is it the higher￾level relational property of being in some state or other that plays the “pain role”in the theory, or the C-fiber stimulation that actually plays this role?