[Consciousness][Prediction] Study reveals how an anesthesia drug incudes unconsciousness

Aug 2, 2024

A study published in Neuron shows that unconsciousness under anesthesia is due to the brain dynamics entering a chaotic state.

https://news.mit.edu/2024/study-reveals-how-anesthesia-drug-induces-unconsciousnes-0715

There’s an interesting relation between this work and our earlier publication correlating predictability in internal state dynamics and consciousness.

Jaewook Yoo, Jaerock Kwon, and Yoonsuck Choe. Predictable internal brain dynamics in EEG and its relation to conscious states. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 8(00018), 2014.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neurorobotics/articles/10.3389/fnbot.2014.00018/full

An earlier version of this appeared in the International Journal of Machine Consciousness special issue organized by Randal Koene.

Yoonsuck Choe, Jaerock Kwon, and Ji Ryang Chung. Time, consciousness, and mind uploading. International Journal on Machine Consciousness, 4:257-274, 2012.

http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/choe/ftp/publications/choe-ijmc12-preprint.pdf

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