Under anesthesia, where do our minds go?

Re:Under anesthesia, where do our minds go? by canjobear on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @11:40AM (#32251832)

> If you’ve ever awoken from general anesthesia, you know what death will be like.

The experience of general anesthesia is: you go under, and then suddenly you are awake (hopefully) after your operation, with no intervening memories.

I don't see how this tells you what death is like. Death is like the stuff in between when you go to sleep and wake up, which you have no memory of (because there is nothing to remember). Nor is going under general anesthesia like going into death, because you believe with high probability that you are going to wake up, whereas if you are going to die you know you won't wake up.

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Re:Under anesthesia, where do our minds go? by simonh on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @11:47AM (#32251942)

The point I think that death is just like losing conciseness completely and being just totally gone, and you just had that experience. The only difference is that with death you never come back.

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Re:Under anesthesia, where do our minds go? by canjobear on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @03:45PM (#32255799)

You didn't have that experience though. Or if you did you don't remember anything from it. The whole point of general anesthesia is you don't experience anything while under it.

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