Brain Bee Ideas - Anesthesia and Tensional Selves – A Neuroaffective Harmony
Brain Bee Ideas - Anesthesia and Tensional Selves – A Neuroaffective Harmony
During surgery, the goal of anesthesia is not merely to turn off pain but to selectively deactivate the "tensional selves" that would otherwise sustain the perception of threat, suffering, or bodily reactions to pain.
In our model, each Tensional Self is an active bioaffective configuration, composed of interactions between:
* Short-lived bioelectrical emotions (cortical activities),
* Stabilized feelings (episodic memories),
* Embedded attention and consciousness (real-time interoception and proprioception).
Thus, to anesthetize means to interrupt the neural and affective supports that maintain these activated self-configurations.
Levels of Anesthesia in Harmony with the Tensional Selves Model**
| Anesthesia Level | What is Deactivated | Relationship to Tensional Selves |
|---|---|---|
| Mild sedation (pre-anesthesia) | Attention and rational criticism | Dissolves Self¹³ (the critical self) and reduces executive activity (DLPFC) |
| General anesthesia (altered perception) | Thalamo-cortical connectivity and consciousness | Breaks the “consciousness loop,” preventing the formation of intentional selves |
| Deep anesthesia | Pain and movement | Deactivates the executive and survival selves. No response to pain |
| Induced coma / Curare + anesthesia | Movement + emotion + consciousness | All Tensional Selves are suspended. Body present, consciousness absent |
Scientific Foundations Supporting This Integration:**
* Mashour et al. (2021) – Conscious processing and the global neuronal workspace in general anesthesia (Nature Neuroscience): anesthesia shuts down the “global workspace,” the brain's integrative network for consciousness.
* Tononi et al. – Integrated Information Theory: consciousness is lost when integrated information (Φ) drops below a critical threshold.
* Alkire et al. (2008) – Consciousness and Anesthesia (Science): anesthesia disrupts thalamo-cortical connectivity.
Conceptual Integration with Tensional Selves
* Anesthesia is essentially an induced block of self-formation.
* Without interoception, attention, or affective networks, no Tensional Self can emerge.
* This demonstrates that selves are not fixed structures, but functional states that emerge and vanish as bioelectrical and affective networks activate or fall silent.
Conclusion
Anesthetic medicine, in clinical practice, confirms that we are not a single, fixed “self,” but multiple potential configurations.
Each level of anesthesia deactivates different blocks of tensional selves, aligning perfectly with the idea that the “self” is an existential metabolism activated in specific bioaffective and bioelectrical circuits.
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