Hoffmann et al. reported similar results, in terms of feasibility, complication rate, hospitalisation and local tumour control, after general anaesthesia or conscious sedation, and concluded that conscious sedation should be preferred, reserving general anaesthesia for non-compliant patients [14].
Gaillard et al. [77] have conducted an intracranial iEEG experiment using a visual masking procedure, performing trials with and without conscious visibility of masked words (with and without showing a mask very shortly after presenting the word), concluding that conscious processing takes place 200 300 ms post stimulus.
But we don't need complex thought experiments to conclude that a conscious computer is ridiculously unlikely.
According to available data, Lee et al. [ 25] conclude that the conscious perception of pain only develops during gestational weeks 29 30.
From these studies, it is possible to conclude that in the conscious rat model used here, the changes in HR were predominantly mediated by β1-adrenoceptors and the changes in HVC via the β2-adrenoceptor.
But I wonder, what evidence it would take for us to conclude that, say, dolphins were conscious?
Perl makes no connection between the artist's cynical frame of mind and his faltering physical condition, although in purely biographical terms Watteau's demise is striking, and given the time Perl has devoted to thinking about the artist, we are forced to conclude that this was a conscious decision on his part.
If performance is more accurate after intentional than incidental instructions, one can conclude that processing the information requires conscious attention and explicit processing.
If variability in how well spatial knowledge is acquired expresses itself more after intentional than incidental learning, then we can conclude that this skill requires the conscious application of attention and knowledge processing.
