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How General Anesthesia Erases Time: Why You Wake Up and Hours Are Gone

March 26, 2026 by Dr. Marcus Reid

Patient being prepared for general anesthesia in operating room, illustrating how anesthesia works on the brain

General anesthesia doesn’t work like sleep. It chemically blocks consciousness and memory formation at the thalamus, erasing hours with no subjective gap. Read the neuroscience.

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DishBrain: The Experiment Where Human Neurons Played Pong

March 11, 2026 by Dr. Marcus Reid

Human neurons in a laboratory dish illustrating the DishBrain organoid intelligence experiment

In October 2022, Cortical Labs published a Neuron paper showing 800,000 neurons on a multi-electrode array learned to play Pong in five minutes. DishBrain used no AI algorithm, only the brain’s natural drive to minimize prediction error.

Categories Uncategorized Tags artificial intelligence, biology, brain cells, consciousness, Cortical Labs, DishBrain, neurons, organoid intelligence Leave a comment