Dr. Christof (Christoph) Koch

Just like most of us don't remember our dreams.

We're clearly conscious, but, you know, we don't remember them.

But there's a study now systematically at Harvard that tries to explore that.

And some people explicitly say that.

In fact, there's one really interesting case.

where the person who then recovered, a young guy, who first said first he was upset that they didn't follow his explicit instruction to terminate life.

But then, of course, later on, now he's relatively normal.

He was very happy that they saved him.

Yeah, so we can pull back, you know, particularly with modern technology, 9-11, etc., rescue helicopters, we can pull back people from the brink of death.

But that may not be the same as, you know, having them actually conscious.

So people are now, the medical community is now beginning to recognize this idea of covert consciousness, which is something that was only really realized over the last 10 years.

Yes, that's a trouble because... Right, you don't know what will be available.

And the other thing is called this bias, this disability bias.

So let's say you look like a person who's highly active, right?

So you probably cannot imagine being in a state where you can't move anymore.

Okay, but now you have to change your prior.

You've had this accident or whatever.

Now you are in this state.

This is a given.

You're now in the state where you had a bad, whatever, car accident, and you can't move anymore.