Re:Consciousness and Anaesthesia
by ineedasername on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @01:53PM
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Do you mean people answer the questions under propofol but afterwards have no recollection of the experience? If so that's exactly the type of thing I was thinking of
I don't know enough about it to guess whether it actually eliminates psychological trauma or simply suppresses it so it's not conscious.
Alzheimers had a similar effect. There's a shortening window of memory which starts off normal and then gradually contracts. In mid-stage victims can't remember the start of a sentence by the time you get to the end of it.
Eventually all that's left are autonomic functions and perhaps a few very deeply engrained emotional memories.