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by David Turell , Sunday, November 29, 2020, 23:11 (1433 days ago) @ BBella

A new book describing that anesthetized patients can be aware of what occurred during their surgery:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/features/henri-laborit-feels-our-pain/?utm_source=Cosmos+-+M...

"In her new book Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness, Australian journalist Kate Cole-Adams describes several episodes in which patients have been anaesthetised before undergoing surgery yet afterwards shown signs of having recalled parts of what happened to them during the operation, while they were supposedly unconscious.

"As the book’s title suggests, what may seem a simple matter of administering a cocktail of drugs to render a patient senseless before submitting them to an otherwise agonising surgery has complexities that stretch well beyond a medical procedure. Indeed, it goes right to the root of what it is that makes us alive: what is consciousness?

"'Reviewing the book in a recent edition of The New Yorker magazine, Joshua Rothman says, “The root of the problem is that no one understands why we are conscious. If you don’t know why the sun comes up, it’s hard to say why it goes down.'”

Comment: The article is a review of Laborit's life. But the saga about understanding consciousness goes on.