This is something I’ve worried about before, after reading about surgeries performed with sufficient anesthetic to immobilize a person, but insufficient to dull the pain. It’s driven me to wonder whether there are surgeries which are experienced but not remembered?
One important distinction is the difference between not remembering and not having experienced. Using surgery as an example, I may not remember the agony I went through, but my brain will have changed from the experience in a not-insignificant way; being rebooted to a save-state would be entirely different.
In fact, I strongly suspect that I was fed opiates as a child during a hospital stay—though I don’t remember many details, and none of those that I do are suggestive of being drugged, I find opinions and shards of idea within me which are highly suggestive of this experience. I find it far too easy to envision what an opiate high would be like—along with the nausea—and in the future would probably take the pain over the side-effects of the high.
This is something I’ve worried about before, after reading about surgeries performed with sufficient anesthetic to immobilize a person, but insufficient to dull the pain. It’s driven me to wonder whether there are surgeries which are experienced but not remembered?
One important distinction is the difference between not remembering and not having experienced. Using surgery as an example, I may not remember the agony I went through, but my brain will have changed from the experience in a not-insignificant way; being rebooted to a save-state would be entirely different.
In fact, I strongly suspect that I was fed opiates as a child during a hospital stay—though I don’t remember many details, and none of those that I do are suggestive of being drugged, I find opinions and shards of idea within me which are highly suggestive of this experience. I find it far too easy to envision what an opiate high would be like—along with the nausea—and in the future would probably take the pain over the side-effects of the high.