
#113 — Consciousness and the Self
Making Sense with Sam Harris
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Anesthesia Awareness - It's Not Characteristic of the Anaesthesia State
Some people have anaesthesia awareness, which is every person's worst nightmare. They are immobilized and can't signal that they're not deep enough - a failure of anaesthesia. If anastete is working properly, certainly, the times i've had joanasesia, will start counting backwards from ten. You get to about eight, and then instantly you're back somewhere else. Very confused, very disoriented. But there is no sense of time having passed. It's just complete oblivion. Do you know who had that experiece yet? I did. Francisco varrella o,. really, i didn't know that. Well, that that's pretty herrific. Could
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