Pain deproblematized

In this paper I demonstrate that the "pain problem" Dartnall claims to have discovered is in fact no problem at all. Dartnall's construction of the ap parent problem, I argue, relies on an erroneous assumption of the unity of consciousness, an erroneous assumption of the simplicity of pain as a pheno menon ignoring crucial neurophysiological and neuroanatomical information, a mistaken account of introspective knowledge according to which introspect ion gives us inner episodes veridically and in their totality and a model o f consciousness that depicts the mind us an attic of inner objects towards which attention might or might not be directed. Once these errors are dispe lled, no problem remains. None the less, given the seductiveness of these e rrors, and the havoc they wreak in cognitive science, dispelling them is a worthwhile exercise.