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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why can you become "blackout drunk"? Why can't you remember anything after?
gpt
Your body is basically shutting down (to prevent you from drinking more poison/speed recovery from the amount you already drank). The same way a computer shuts down and there's the blue screen before it turns off, you enter that "windows is shutting down" area in real life where your body is taking over for you, and you don't remember because memory isn't the priority when you've been poisoned/are about to die. The same way documents arnt saved if you shut down your pc with them running, it's worried about closing programs not saving data.

In a little more real terms, the alcohol interferes with receptors in your brain responsible for many things including the areas for memory, it affects everyone to a different degree and increasing consumption adds more interference, making you lose more and more memory until you potentially lose the whole night.