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Full Idea
After frontal lobotomies, patients typically report that they still have pains, though the pains no longer bother them.
Gist of Idea
Lobotomised patients can cease to care about a pain
Source
Ned Block (Troubles with Functionalism [1978], p. 83)
Book Ref
'The Philosophy of Mind', ed/tr. Beakley,B /Ludlow P [MIT 1992], p.83
A Reaction
I take this to be an endorsement of reductive physicalism, because what matters about pains is that they bother us, not how they feel, so frog pain could do the job, if it felt different from ours, but was disliked by the frog.
Related Idea
Idea 3360 Are pains pure qualia, or do they motivate? [Kim]