Medics have been urged to reconsider our final moments as a ‘gradual, interruptible process’ — and reconsider how long they spend trying to resuscitate patients
  • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    804·
    2 days ago

    Consciousness barely lasts a couple seconds without bloodflow though. Clearly a clickbait title that is intentionally misleading.

    • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Yeah I remember the record for a beheading test was like 30-45 seconds where the guy who was executed basically tried to blink every second to confirm he was conscious, and iirc the average was agreed to be something like 15 seconds tops

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      11·
      4 hours ago

      I have “died” once. I must be defective, or not have a soul, or something, because I can only remember waking from the coma 3 days later.

    • Iconoclast@feddit.ukEnglish
      27·
      1 day ago

      I think the consciousness they’re talking about here is the subjective sense of something happening - that it feels like something to be. The fact of experience itself. Unconsciousness in the medical sense doesn’t necessarily mean the end of experience.

      • purplemonkeymad@programming.devEnglish
        61·
        18 hours ago

        I can tell you from experience, you are not aware of being unconscious. It goes from the moment before you lose it, to when you regain without any period between.

        • Iconoclast@feddit.ukEnglish
          9·
          17 hours ago

          There are multiple ways to be “unconscious.” Head trauma, sleep, general anesthesia, fainting, coma - for example.

          The experience varies wildly: from absolute nothing under general anesthesia to extremely vivid stuff during sleep.

      • partofthevoice@lemmy.zipEnglish
        17·
        1 day ago

        This is a really difficult concept for some people in our modern society. Enlightenment style thinking would have you believe that human consciousness is a blanket term for salience, attention, awareness, sentience, social cognition, self-recognition, meta-cognition, etc. It’s as though you looked at a car and didn’t see its component parts or individual qualities, you just saw this weird new thing called Car.