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Obscurity4340 11 days ago

If time dilation is said to being a product of computation, why is it that anaesthetic drugs that are taken not to the point of actual unconsciousness cause it. Dont anaesthetics sort of shut everything down/inhibit all that kind of cognitive activity (compute?)

anon84873628 11 days ago | parent | next [-]

"Time dilation" in this case is referring to the physics phenomenon from Einstein's special relativity. Not human perception.

ArnoVW 11 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes. Or at least that is what I understood from the Radiolab episode on “how do aesthetics work”

https://radiolab.org/podcast/anesthesia