Pain (cf. Suffering)​

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1. A subcategory of painience in which the aversive experience serves as a functional signal motivating the removal of a genuine threat or deficit.

2. Aversive experience that is proportionate to and congruent with actual circumstances, carrying useful motivational information.

3. Pain that exists in unresisted relationship with reality, directing attention and action toward something that warrants change or avoidance.

4. The adaptive form of painience, whose purpose is served and whose intensity is not amplified by resistance.

5. Aversive experience whose elimination is best achieved by addressing its source rather than by dismantling a belief or releasing resistance.

6. The subcategory of painience that would be present even in a being incapable of resistance or false belief, arising from reality's direct impact on the organism.

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See Pleasure And Panience: The Distinctions