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2025-12-27 07:07 UTC
@datum@zeroes.ca I listened some neurologist debating an hinduist anesthesist claiming that because they can't tell what consciousness is, and they don't really understand what happens precisely under general anesthesia, it might well be like being in induced death for what they can tell. This came from the materialist debating the spiritualist, so to speak, as an aside on a debate about consciousness. It really stuck with me.
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@datum@zeroes.ca 2025-12-27 09:13
@splinux@mastodon.uno Interesting! Extraordinarily salient, too. Maybe due to memory blockage, but if I understand right general anaesthesia isn't particularly known to bring about the more commonly reported experiences of dying or of near death experiences - the stereotype of one's life flashing before one's eyes, etc. Regardless, philosophically and practically it's absolutely sensible to ask what separates the internal aspects of different states of unconsciousness and near/death from others.