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Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 20, 2026

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Medicine and Health, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

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Anesthesia, Emery Brown, Michael Egnor, Molly McDonough}

Are We Really “Unconscious” While Under Anesthesia?

_{Modern medics rely very much on anesthesia but how it works is not quite clear} _{Denyse O'Leary
June 20, 2026

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Medicine and Health, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

Part of the reason we don’t know exactly how anesthesia works is surely that we do not know what consciousness is (there are at least 325 theories out there).

A Mystery of Consciousness — Thinking While in a Coma

_{Researchers are finding that many unresponsive bran-damaged people have covert consciousness. The question is, how to help them?} _{News
June 19, 2026

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Medicine and Health, Neuroscience}

Neurologist Brian Edlow hopes that brain–computer interface technology like Neuralink will help researchers communicate with covertly conscious people.