Philosophical Speculations

And again, it could just as easily be memory formation that’s been impaired. Astra mentioned the physicalist who suggested just that so anesthesia can’t really prove it’s been turned off. Or if we go with a filter model then it just messes with the body so consciousness can’t manifest properly. If u...

And again, the study in question doesn’t actually enhance or change the argument. It’s still just a repackaged “anesthesia turns off the soul” argument. You’re not the first person to think of this. All this study does is potentially explain the mechanisms of how it actually effects the brain, but w...

This is literally the same argument as before. Like really, it’s just “anesthesia does stuff to the brain and produces a state of unconscious, thus consciousness isn’t always present”. The studies posted don’t change that argument or bolster it, all they do is give evidence for the mechanisms of how...