Researchers find a better way to measure consciousness

Millions of people are administered general anesthesia each year in the United States alone, but it’s not always easy to tell whether they are actually unconscious.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

Researchers find a better way to measure consciousness

Millions of people are administered general anesthesia each year in the United States alone, but it’s not always easy to tell whether they are actually unconscious.

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It is a worry you are conscious, can feel pain but can’t move/speak, I’d hope you have some sort of reaction (heart beat spike) that can detect and realise.

>an unconscious state like sleep

not sure about that as a generalization, possibly a misleading idea in it, or notion perhaps, angle maybe

I mean if you took self-aware consciousness to involve awareness of the internal environment (of mind), then it’d probably be a wrong-headed lurch to equate sleep with unconsciousness, the senses might be greatly folded back to the external environment, sure

technically, if you employed a ratio comparison (weighting or whatever maybe), it could be that the sensing of internal environment could be enhanced while asleep, in some ways, important ways

if a brain can sense something of itself, of its workings, which apparently it can in many people, I think it’d be a big stretch, quite unbelievable that all states of sleep render a brain unconscious, that the mind vanishes, if I could put it that way

it could be possible that the mind in a sense knows itself better, or is truer to the internal environment with senses folded back

but who am I to question sleep’s subordinate status to wakefulness, to argue against the superior truths delivered from the wakeful world