On 14 March 2015 at 07:21, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/13/2015 10:06 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 5:44 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 3/13/2015 12:19 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: >> >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 1:25 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 3/12/2015 1:21 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: >>> >>> >>> Not me. I'm the opposite, I was always confused by the idea that rocks >>> are not conscious. >>> >>> >>> If you ever have an operation, I suggest you check to see that your >>> anesthesiologist is not confused. >>> >> >> There's maybe a difference between being a conscious entity and being >> conscious of something. >> >> Telmo. >> >> >> So you think you could be conscious without being conscious *of* >> something? >> > > I'm not sure, as per my response to Bruno. But this is not what I meant > to suggest here. My argument is simply that anaesthetics appear to allow > one to not be conscious of the external environment. We can only speculate > if one remains conscious of some internal environment. > > That's just mystification. We don't "only speculate". We can monitor > brain waves, hormone levels, blood pressure, reflexes. >
Last time I was anaesthetised, I had rather vivid dreams. -- 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/d/optout.
