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It's not that simple: Ask the person under sedation wether they're conscious or unconscious. If they answer, what does that mean?
by loopz 6y ago
It's not that simple: Ask the person under sedation wether they're conscious or unconscious.
If they answer, what does that mean?
- samatman 6y agoSure, and sometimes you can talk to people who are completely asleep. I think we agree: it's not that simple. To my taste, a total lack of memory formation is on the unconscious side of this fuzzy, permeable boundary. And that's just humans. When we start talking about complex software which isn't alive in any meaningful sense, all our intuitions should fail us. They won't; our intuitions are stubborn things. But they are as likely to mislead as to inform.