 Although a functionalist treatment of affective phenomenology seems problematic for pure strong representationalists, it may be welcomed by perceptual theorists in general who are seeking to give a naturalistic account of pain as a perception. All they need to do to accommodate pain’s affective phenomenology is to say that feeling pain involves perception although perception doesn’t exhaust its nature: feeling pain is also an affective/emotional experience that can be explained by invoking other factors, say, the functional role of pain’s sensory/representational content (see, for example, Lycan 1987a, pp. 60–61 and Clark 2006, Aydede &amp; Fulkerson 2019 for proposals roughly along this line) or the evaluative representation of what the sensory-discriminative component of pain represents (e.g., the badness of tissue damage) — see below. Including the affective phenomenology, as we may recall, is what the IASP definition of pain seems to recommend. It seems also embedded in the common-sense conception of pain: pains are unpleasant.