What Are We Doing Here?

Anesthesiology is an extremely intense career, and there's a reason that that field are among themost, the highest paid doctors in the world. After a lot of contemplation and looking at the research, it became very clear that we're never going to find the answer. Our model of how consciousness and our bodies act work is based on a paradime that is not rigorous. So imagine having your organs or being stitched up while being conscious for a very long time. And humans endured that for aVery long time. Sady Sady writes about it in one of his essays, but i argue it's generally been a net positive for humanity. I mean, if we were still treating

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