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Map Phenomenology To Mechanism
- Focus on mapping phenomenology to mechanisms rather than solving the hard problem head-on.
- Retain phenomenological targets to build explanatory bridges between brain and experience.
Levels Versus Wakefulness
- Level of consciousness ranges from total absence (e.g., anesthesia) to full alertness and correlates with arousal but is dissociable.
- States like dreaming and vegetative/wakeful unawareness show level and wakefulness can diverge.
Anesthesia Feels Like Total Oblivion
- Aneil Seth describes general anesthesia as unlike sleep and often experienced as complete oblivion.
- He finds the instant disappearance and return under anesthesia personally reassuring.