10 Simple Question Difficult to Answer

33. Why does anesthesia work?

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Anesthesia causes us to lose consciousness, but why does it work? We cannot truly understand how anesthesia knocks people unconscious. To find out the answer to this question, we need to find out what consciousness actually is. The humans are self-aware, that is true, but there isn’t an actual definition to explain consciousness.