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#113 — Consciousness and the Self

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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What Is General Anesthesia?

The state of general anecesia is very different, and for very good reason. If you were just put into a state of sleep, you would wake up as soon as the operation started. It's surprising how far down you can take people in general annecesia, almost to a level of iso electric brain activity - where there is pretty much nothing going on at all. And any most, many people now have had the the non experience of general anaesthesia. In some weird way, i now look forward to it,. because it's a very tru it's always a reassuring experience, because there is absolutely nothing. It's complete oblivion.

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