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- From: davis@passy.ilog.fr (Harley Davis)
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- Subject: Re: Searle on animal consciousness
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 09:39:28 GMT
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- In article <1k0r1tINN5fn@cannelloni.cis.ohio-state.edu> chandra@cis.ohio-state.edu (B Chandrasekaran) writes:
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- Would you say that a patient under anesthesia is in pain, he just
- doesn't feel it? I think that would be an odd use of the term.
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- Maybe it depends on where the anesthesia intervenes in the pain
- generation process. In an extreme example, my mother just had a
- cataract operation in which there was a local mild anesthesia, but
- also some amnesia-inducing drug that was supposed to make her forget
- the entire operation afterwards. (It didn't work, by the way ---
- yuck!) The situation is rather muddled.
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