It's sort of obvious that these concepts of consciousness and memory are related. To be conscious (aware) of something, there must be a memory of it, right? Oth

It's sort of obvious that these concepts of consciousness and memory are related. To be conscious (aware) of something, there must be a memory of it, right? Otherwise, does it really matter. It makes me think about the drugs that disrupt memory, like midazolam. If you're undergoing a procedure with "conscious sedation," you may be, for fleeting periods, aware of certain things, but these drugs effectively reduce that memory duration to near-zero. And in that case, there's hardly a different between not feeling pain because you're unconscious and feeling pain for an infinitesimal period because you're unable to remember the prior period's experience.