As a compliment to the thread about near death experiences I’d really like hearing people’s experiences of losing consciousness under general anesthesia and what’s it like coming back.

Also interested of things anesthetists may have noticed about this during their career.

  • Kool_Newt@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s weird! It’s something so fundamental yet if you weren’t experiencing it yourself you’d have no idea it’s even a thing. There’s zero evidence for it outside of the mind itself.

    Just a random thought, this reminds me of light. Kinda weird to think about but light is invisible unless it goes directly into your eyes.

    Also as Sam Harris says it’s the only thing in the entire universe that cannot be an illusion. Even if everything else is fake and the entire universe is just a hallucination/simulation the fact that it feels like something to be in that simulation is still true.

    Very very strange.

    This and time too. You ask the oracle about consciousness, I’ll ask about time lol.

    “I think therefore I am” … does that also mean “I thought therefore I was”? or something like that?

    • gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Now assume I’m the oracle.

      Time is the passage of the story that you are/exist in.

      In some more general sense, the universe doesn’t so much exist as a physical, real world, but as a story, dream or thought. In that story, you move forward like water flows in a river. That way you experience the passage of time. The landscape already exists, only you get to see it bit by bit. You’re welcome.

    • amelia@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      “I think therefore I am” … does that also mean “I thought therefore I was”? or something like that?

      No, theoretically your whole memory could be an illusion.