I’m concerned about the possibility that from my current perspective I will die as I’m put under even though from everyone else’s perspective I’ll wake up all the same, as I would be “rebooted” into a new “session” of consciousness and my current session won’t be able to access/experience what happens in the new one the same way I can feel what happens to me 5 minutes from now.
This is definitely a question of a personal perspective, and for some people this forward-looking idea of survival of identity is important: “from my current perspective I will die as I’m put under”. For other people what matters is the backward-looking perspective: did the person who woke up feel like they are the same person who was put under? If yes, there is no issue, if not, well, you have to figure out whether to change your model of identity or live with the idea that you will die and someone else with your memories will be created, or maybe even forgo general anesthesia completely if neither of the options above works for you.
This is definitely a question of a personal perspective, and for some people this forward-looking idea of survival of identity is important: “from my current perspective I will die as I’m put under”. For other people what matters is the backward-looking perspective: did the person who woke up feel like they are the same person who was put under? If yes, there is no issue, if not, well, you have to figure out whether to change your model of identity or live with the idea that you will die and someone else with your memories will be created, or maybe even forgo general anesthesia completely if neither of the options above works for you.