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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Different Types of General Anesthesia

General anesthesia is quite distinct from deep sleep, just as a matter of neurophysiology. It's surprising how far down you can take people in general anesthesia, almost to a level of isoelectric brain activity where there is pretty much nothing going on at all and still bring them back. In some weird way, I now look forward to it the next time I get to have this, because it's a very sort of, it's almost a reassuring experience because there is absolutely nothing. It's completely oblivion.

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