While I don't intend to make any actual assertions in either direction, I do feel bound to note that the experience of being anesthetized isn't really incompati

While I don't intend to make any actual assertions in either direction, I do feel bound to note that the experience of being anesthetized isn't really incompatible with a concept of souls and of ensoulment. After all, under anesthesia there remains something to "come back" to. When dead, not so much.