>What enables anesthetics such as xenon or isoflurane gas to switch off the conscious mind? Hameroff speculates that anesthetics “interrupt a delicate quantum p

>What enables anesthetics such as xenon or isoflurane gas to switch off the conscious mind? Hameroff speculates that anesthetics “interrupt a delicate quantum process” within the neurons of the brain. Pet peeve: We don't know that anything interrupts consciousness at all. We experience a lack of memory, we never experience non-consciousness. Nor do we currently know what to look for in others. We can observe a lack of normal activity, and maybe various brain regions shutting down, but we don't have any way to map that to experience itself. Also:http://lesswrong.com/lw/r5/the_quantum_physics_sequence/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/r5/the_quantum_physics_sequence/