Could research into unconsciousness be somewhat easier? When are a brain unconscious? During anesthesia you might say. Alas, as everything else, it is not that simple.
If we look at what's actually required for a satisfied patient, a truly unconscious brain ai'nt that. Especially as long as both lawyers and patients agree that impaired memory are enough for satisfaction. Absence of objections are not evidence of good enough. A well and sufficiently (not over) medicated patient have a quite active brain during anesthesia. Conscious? Probably not. Memory retention? Hopefully not . Pain reactions to surgery? Actually possible to measure, se www.med-storm.com most patients with classic standard anesthesia are severly as in cognitive impairment dose level overmedicated during surgery. No Pain. So a patient who officially are the definition of unconscious, aint and should not be. So what is unconscious then? I would wager that it is difficult to prove anything about a regular stone, so lets call that one unconscious. /Henrik Den fre 9 sep. 2022 00:44John Clark <[email protected]> skrev: > On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 6:31 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>>> Like me Carmack is much more interested in intelligence than >>>>> consciousness and has no interest in the "philosophical zombie" argument. >>>> >>>> >>>> *>>> It is possible to be highly interested in both. Why not?* >>>> >>> >>> * >> If one were unconscious to whom would it be useful?* >> >> > > > Because one is a useful activity and the other is not. > > > I meant that research into the nature of intelligence is useful, that is > to say it leads somewhere, but consciousness research leads nowhere and > accomplishes nothing. > > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> > > kkq > > > > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv13bweRRmHnBk4BHB7ASwCgwTSWmgucqeCNevQrahB2EA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv13bweRRmHnBk4BHB7ASwCgwTSWmgucqeCNevQrahB2EA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAF0GBnhczN%2B0K7jcS9upCSLU2Pz4nwnoRT741e5WEYdGZA8GAw%40mail.gmail.com.
