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Re:Under anesthesia, where do our minds go? by lend000 on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @03:31AM (#32247794)
Not taking one position or the other, but you can't make any conclusions about whether a separate consciousness exists from anesthesia, only that no memories were formed that can be accessed by that consciousness (even if it did experience qualia during that time).
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Re:Under anesthesia, where do our minds go? by TuringTest on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @05:01AM (#32248325)
If qualia are not remembered, do they make a sound?
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Re:Under anesthesia, where do our minds go? by MomoXenosaga on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @06:09AM (#32248651)
Consciousness trying to make up reasons why consciousness can survive death. That's what religion is all about.
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Re:Under anesthesia, where do our minds go? by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @11:32AM (#32251707)
How about unconsciousness trying to make up reasons for consciousness? I see it in the comments, and it even looks like a religious belief.
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Re:Under anesthesia, where do our minds go? by ben_w on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @10:30AM (#32250819)
The sound of one hand clapping.
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Re:Under anesthesia, where do our minds go? by layer8 on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @03:56PM (#32255967)
Maybe you actually have a thousand consciousnesses, but only remember one, and the other 999 consciousnesses are just helplessly experiencing your physical body? You can’t disprove that, but why entertain any such notion?
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Re:Under anesthesia, where do our minds go? by simonh on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @09:51AM (#32250387)
Understood, but I don't think that view is consistent with the evidence we have of brain activity during conscious and unconscious states, and memory formation.
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