> Imagine if you had to consciously process every breath. It would seem stilted and robotic. You wouldn’t be able to fully concentrate on anything else. Imagine

> Imagine if you had to consciously process every breath. It would seem stilted and robotic. You wouldn’t be able to fully concentrate on anything else. Imagine how exhausting and disabling that would be! This is a dangerous analogy. The logical consequence is that any reasonable person with this condition would take a "cure" if (well, when) it's available. After all, who in their right mind would want to think to breathe! What happens when those "cured" patients want to go to sleep to revamp the cognitive exhaustion they're used to, they're instead treated to an entire new domain of emotional impressions and memories to process? When they try incessantly to "solve" these emotional impressions and memories, but only end up creating yet more emotional impressions? What happens when they realize that "null" doesn't actually equal "0"-- that they cannot ever turn off their new sensory perception?