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Originally Posted by wstewart
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Originally Posted by thedoc
But I would ask what is the evidence that a coma or sleep induced by anesthesia produces a 'Non-felt gap' as opposed to a 'felt-gap'?
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Evidence? Well, for example, clinical self-report, after coma, noting unawarenesss of the passage of time. Preferably the self-report would be augmented by staff observation and scans.
There's always the possibility that a self-report could confuse a period of memory loss with an unfelt time-gap; both could produce the same self-report, after. But in that case observation would distinguish, by noting awareness during that time period.
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I am consciously unaware of the passage of time when I am asleep but as I have stated elsewhere my 'internal clock' keeps going and I will wake up when needed. Is this 'internal clock' stopped for people in coma? If any person, who has this facility to wake up automatically, experienced a coma and has their internal colck been disrupted? If so that would indicate that even internally the body was not aware of the passage of time 'Unfelt time-gap', however if the 'internal clock' was not disrupted the body continued to be aware of the passage of time, a 'felt time-gap'.