alt Hacker News> the doctor explained to me that I would be awake for part of the procedure, but the anesthesia meant that I would have no memory of it
The short story "Transition Dreams" by Greg Egan touches on this concept
> the doctor explained to me that I would be awake for part of the procedure, but the anesthesia meant that I would have no memory of it
The short story "Transition Dreams" by Greg Egan touches on this concept
I can strongly recommend reading... anything else by Egan, just not that one.
It's not that it's bad. The problem's the opposite: He poses an existentially dreadful question which I can't definitively answer with 'no'.