Consider the following experiences: an intense sharp pain in the shoulder, a gustatory experience of a good beer and a visual experience of a spider. The way it is like to feel the pain is bad (it involves an "affectivepositive/negative value" - "valence"), and there is a sense in which the pain itself is bad. But what about the gustatory and visual experiences? According to a hypothesis recently raised in the philosophical and scientific literature, the sensory world *as a whole* is a ‘hot’ world, involving both engaging and repellent aspects. Perceptual experiences in all sense-modalities are inherently valenced: they involve an affective dimension that evaluates and "colors" the objects and properties given to us in perception. For example, a subject may *see*(literally – in a visual sense) something or someone positively or negatively.Among the issues we will discuss: What is perceptual valence? Is the Valenced Hypothesis empirically and philosophically plausible? What is the role of valence in perception in particular and in our mental life more generally? For example, does valence play a role in decision making and in moving us to action? How is valence related to suffering and various kinds of pleasure? What theories have been proposed regarding the affective dimension of experiences? Specifically, is the representational theory, which is accepted as the most probable theory of the sensory dimension of experiences, an appropriate theory regarding their affective dimension? What are the implications of the Valenced Hypothesis to the value and significance of consciousness?