Certain kinds of pain stimulus causes you automatically to move away from it, such as when you put your hand on a stove. But parts of your body might be sendin

Certain kinds of pain stimulus causes you automatically to move away from it, such as when you put your hand on a stove. But parts of your body might be sending pain signals into the brain for which there are no automatic actions for, e.g. you are in a sauna and it's too much. The state of the simulation that you are in is updated with this pain signal. So, now, you might experience discomfort in the sauna and it is repellent so you might want to construct an action plan to move away from the source that is causing the pain (the fact you're in a sauna). But you might want to resist that for a moment and ignore the pain, maybe you have another conflicting goal which is to try to stay longer in the sauna than you're used to. Eventually the discomfort and pain might become overwhelming so you move out of the sauna.