>>12053706I’m not saying consciousness cannot linger in some individuals with particular doses of particular anaesthetics.
I’m making two different points.
The first is, I don’t know if you’re a schizo who thinks people ACTUALLY leave their body when they have an “out of body” experience, so I brought up the studies that tried to find evidence for ACTUALLY leaving your body, and they failed.
In this case, the only “evidence” is people who were given a mind altering drug and then “experienced”/hallucinated/dreamed being out of their body.
The other point is, yes consciousness can persist in a rare small proportion of anaesthetised patients. But if our consciousness was in some disembodied server, that runs whether the body is dead or alive, then no one should lose consciousness when given anaesthesia. Yet the vast majority, about 99.9977% lose consciousness until after the anaesthesia is stopped. The question then is, if consciousness persists on a “server” after death (and our body is a “terminal”), but does not persist when anaesthetised or undergoing certain types of epilepsy, then what is happening?
The obvious and simplest explanation is that consciousness does not persist after death on some quantum server.
Whether some people are not fully unconscious in some cases doesn’t matter, because the argument made was that consciousness persist after death (when there is no brain), and so should persist in every case where the brain is incapacitated by anaesthesia
