John, There are thousands of chemicals that are good organic solvents that aren't anesthetics. I don't think that has anything to do with it...
Edgar On Friday, January 17, 2014 12:19:25 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote > >> >> > One possible reason for the loss of consciousness I've proposed is it >> simply stops the internal time sense. The other possibility of course is >> that it disables the specific self-referential circuits that tell an >> organism what it is experiencing and doing... >> > > But why are chemicals that are good at dissolving oils and fats and waxes > better at disabling consciousness than chemicals that are less good at > dissolving those things. What does one have to do with the other? They > don't seem related but there must be a connection because the correlation > is very strong, but how does it work? If we could answer that I think we'd > learn a lot more about how the brain functions. > > John K Clark > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
