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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tamsun.tamu.edu!mtecv2!academ01!iordonez
  2. From: iordonez@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Ivan Ordonez-Reinoso)
  3. Newsgroups: talk.origins
  4. Subject: Re: What is consciousness?
  5. Message-ID: <iordonez.722134309@academ01>
  6. Date: 19 Nov 92 00:51:49 GMT
  7. References: <1992Nov9.014549.6456@aurora.com> <BeJ1TB1w165w@kalki33>
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  12. kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us writes:
  13.  
  14. >We can say what consciousness is, but first we would like your opinion:
  15. >what is it, what happens to it after death, and why?
  16.  
  17. Once I went under anesthesia for about two hours, because I had an
  18. operation. I remember feeling funny when the pre-anesthesia started
  19. affecting my senses, and then, I was switched off. I remember nothing,
  20. absolutely nothing of those two hours; they disappeared from my sense of
  21. time, and I, my consciousness, disappeared from the Universe and appeared
  22. again later.
  23.  
  24. I think that to be dead is like being under anesthesia forever: you
  25. become nothing at all. Why? Because your brain stops working.
  26.  
  27. --Ivan Ordonez
  28.