Comment by PopePompus
1 year ago
What about general anesthesia? I had a major operation during which most of my brain was definitely offline for at least 8 hours.
1 year ago
What about general anesthesia? I had a major operation during which most of my brain was definitely offline for at least 8 hours.
Anesthesia shouldn't take your brain offline. It just makes you unconscious, paralyzes you, and gives you amnesia. Your brain is still active under general anesthesia. What you were thinking or feeling for those 8 hours was just forgotten.
[citation needed].
You might try https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8054915/ which states: "General anesthesia is characterized by loss of consciousness, amnesia, analgesia, and immobility." and further down shows brain activity recorded while under anesthesia via EEG. The paper looks at the differences and similarities of brain activity while under anesthesia and sleep. This is only possible because, however changed or slowed by it, the brain is still active while under anesthesia