fucked up question, I know - but ultimately it’s a question about suffering and experience of personhood - did “you” really experience the torture for an hour if you don’t remember it later?
What about the hour where you were awake and present, before the memory is wiped? How much does that suffering matter? Does the fact that after the torture you won’t remember override the suffering you will experience in the present during the torture, relative to suffering you will remember the rest of your life?
true, and there is more than one kind of anaesthesia - I should have clarified I meant with typical general anaesthesia when drugs like propofol are used.
There are exceptions to the rule, but in general it’s not true that during surgery you experience everything and then just don’t remember later because of the drugs.