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duskwuffyesterday at 10:03 PM0 repliesview on HN

Anesthesia appears to be a fairly broad effect - anaesthetics work on plants, for example [1], even though they lack any neural tissue whatsoever. It would be extremely surprising if those effects were also targeted enough to halt only some types of brain activity.

[1]: e.g. https://doi.org/10.4161/psb.27886