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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Is being unconscious from anesthetics the same as sleeping in terms of brain activity?
gpt
no, unconsciousness is different from ordinary sleep, because unconsciousness is an induced brain state where most activity ceases and you will not wake or respond to external stimuli that would otherwise wake a person up, but in normal sleep the brain is just as active as when you are awake, sorting, compressing and putting info into long term memory.