It’s Alive?! Frankenstein & Consciousness with George Mashour and David Andrijevic
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Are These Zombie Rats Now?
We try to probe this with inducing reanimation from anesthesia and experimental setting where we are stimulated with electricity or we're driving a certain set of neurons. We've asked the question actually in these terms, are these zombie rats now? They look awake, but do they have phenomenology that's associated with that wakefulness? We think about it with the emergence of patients from general anesthesia. What's that minimal or self that is emerging and that process of the self reconstituting after an metastatic leads to very similar questions. Is this the same person emerging as the one that went under?
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