2013-11-18
Original: 2013-11-18 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Neuro the Clown (a bald man in a suit): Hi, kids. I'm Neuro the Clown.
Child (party hat): You don't look like a clown.
Panel 2:
Neuro the Clown (now wearing a red clown nose): The combination of fear and unhappiness aroused in your mind by a normal clown can be artificially induced by a rapidly fluctuating magnetic field confined to your amygdala and neocortex.
Neuro the Clown: Now, line up single file to receive amusement.
Panel 3:
Child: Can you show us all illusions?
Neuro the Clown (holding a wand, kids in party hats around him): Consciousness.
Votey:
Thumbs-up character speech bubble: Neuro would like it if the job market for psych majors were better.
Neuro the Clown (a bald man in a suit): Hi, kids. I'm Neuro the Clown.
Child (party hat): You don't look like a clown.
Panel 2:
Neuro the Clown (now wearing a red clown nose): The combination of fear and unhappiness aroused in your mind by a normal clown can be artificially induced by a rapidly fluctuating magnetic field confined to your amygdala and neocortex.
Neuro the Clown: Now, line up single file to receive amusement.
Panel 3:
Child: Can you show us all illusions?
Neuro the Clown (holding a wand, kids in party hats around him): Consciousness.
Votey:
Thumbs-up character speech bubble: Neuro would like it if the job market for psych majors were better.
Alt text
A three-panel comic. A bald man in a suit introduces himself to a group of kids in party hats: 'Hi, kids. I'm Neuro the Clown.' A child says 'You don't look like a clown.' In the next panel he has put on a red clown nose and deadpans a neuroscience explanation: the fear and unhappiness a normal clown causes can be artificially induced by a fluctuating magnetic field aimed at your amygdala and neocortex, then tells the kids to 'line up single file to receive amusement.' In the final panel a child asks 'Can you show us all illusions?' and Neuro, holding a magic wand, simply answers 'Consciousness.' Votey: a close-up of a tired-looking face with the caption 'Neuro would like it if the job market for psych majors were better.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.