Consciousness and anesthesia - Kataria, Hari Babu;Thero, Sumedh;Suman, Aditya
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Consciousness at its simplest, is "sentience or awareness of internal or external existence". Despite centuries of analyses, definitions, explanations and debates by philosophers and scientists, consciousness remains puzzling and controversial, being "at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives". Perhaps the only widely agreed notion about the topic is the intuition that it exists. Opinions differ about what exactly needs to be studied and explained as consciousness. Sometimes, it is synonymous with 'the mind', and at other times, an aspect of it. In the past, it was…mehr

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Consciousness at its simplest, is "sentience or awareness of internal or external existence". Despite centuries of analyses, definitions, explanations and debates by philosophers and scientists, consciousness remains puzzling and controversial, being "at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives". Perhaps the only widely agreed notion about the topic is the intuition that it exists. Opinions differ about what exactly needs to be studied and explained as consciousness. Sometimes, it is synonymous with 'the mind', and at other times, an aspect of it. In the past, it was one's "inner life", the world of introspection, of private thought, imagination and volition. Today, it often includes some kind of experience, cognition, feeling or perception. It may be 'awareness', or 'awareness of awareness', or self-awareness. There might be different levels or orders of consciousness, or different kinds of consciousness, or just one kind with different features. Other questions include whether only humans are conscious or all animals or even the whole universe. The disparate range of research, notions and speculations raises doubts whether the right questions.
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Dr. Hari Babu Kataria - MBBS de la Universidad Jiwaji Gwalior, MP, India, dos veces Diplomado en Anestesia de la Universidad Jiwaji Gwalior, MP, India, y Delhi. Se desempeñó como residente principal en el Hospital Ram Manohar Lohia de Nueva Delhi de 1993 a 1996, en el Hospital Kasturba de 1997, en las Fuerzas Centrales de Reserva de la India de 1997, en el Hospital Privado Ujjain Cheritable y en el Colegio Médico R D Gardi.