2013-03-18
Original: 2013-03-18 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with glasses and reddish hair: "You are a mind."
Profile of the woman, facing a man in a green shirt across the panel.
Woman: "Minds make up an infinitesimal fraction of the matter in the universe."
Panel 2:
Woman: "But in the capricious motions of the history of reality, a small number of times, a few handfulls of carbon have assembled in just such a way that they can perceive the world around them and analyze the sensation."
Panel 3:
Woman (now looking slightly worried, the man leaning in from the right): "To be able to perceive that I'm not paying my share of rent, and then to experience anger over it, is a privilege 99.99999% of this universe's particles will never have."
Panel 4:
Man in green shirt: "It's a yes or no. Are you paying rent or not?"
Woman: "And you can perceive binary logic. Amazing!"
Votey:
A loosely sketched version of the woman.
Woman: "I have a philosophy degree, which means I both shouldn't and can't pay rent."
Woman with glasses and reddish hair: "You are a mind."
Profile of the woman, facing a man in a green shirt across the panel.
Woman: "Minds make up an infinitesimal fraction of the matter in the universe."
Panel 2:
Woman: "But in the capricious motions of the history of reality, a small number of times, a few handfulls of carbon have assembled in just such a way that they can perceive the world around them and analyze the sensation."
Panel 3:
Woman (now looking slightly worried, the man leaning in from the right): "To be able to perceive that I'm not paying my share of rent, and then to experience anger over it, is a privilege 99.99999% of this universe's particles will never have."
Panel 4:
Man in green shirt: "It's a yes or no. Are you paying rent or not?"
Woman: "And you can perceive binary logic. Amazing!"
Votey:
A loosely sketched version of the woman.
Woman: "I have a philosophy degree, which means I both shouldn't and can't pay rent."
Alt text
A four-panel comic. A woman with glasses and reddish hair lectures a skeptical man in a green shirt. She says "You are a mind," then explains that minds are an infinitesimal fraction of the matter in the universe, and that only rarely have "a few handfulls of carbon" assembled so they can perceive and analyze the world. She concludes that to perceive she isn't paying her share of rent and feel anger over it is a privilege 99.99999% of the universe's particles will never have. The unimpressed man replies, "It's a yes or no. Are you paying rent or not?" and she beams: "And you can perceive binary logic. Amazing!" The joke is her grandiose cosmic philosophizing used to dodge a simple rent question. Votey: a rough sketch of the woman saying, "I have a philosophy degree, which means I both shouldn't and can't pay rent."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.