2014-09-23
Original: 2014-09-23 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Green alien: If simulated realities are possible, there should be more simulated realities than real ones. This is probably all fake!
Woman: hehe.
Panel 2 (woman laughs):
Woman: What's funny?
Panel 3:
Green alien: Two small lobes of fat sitting in an unlit cavity atop an evolved ape body. Feeling nervous about whether it's *really* experiencing things.
Panel 4:
Woman: I could say the same of you, Zoktrax.
Green alien: I have THREE lobes.
Votey:
A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical axis is labeled "Sapience" running from 0% to 100%. The horizontal axis is labeled "Lobes" with marks at 1, 2, 3, 4. A red line stays flat at 0% across 1 and 2 lobes, then jumps sharply straight up to 100% at 3 lobes and continues as an arrow off to the right.
Green alien: If simulated realities are possible, there should be more simulated realities than real ones. This is probably all fake!
Woman: hehe.
Panel 2 (woman laughs):
Woman: What's funny?
Panel 3:
Green alien: Two small lobes of fat sitting in an unlit cavity atop an evolved ape body. Feeling nervous about whether it's *really* experiencing things.
Panel 4:
Woman: I could say the same of you, Zoktrax.
Green alien: I have THREE lobes.
Votey:
A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical axis is labeled "Sapience" running from 0% to 100%. The horizontal axis is labeled "Lobes" with marks at 1, 2, 3, 4. A red line stays flat at 0% across 1 and 2 lobes, then jumps sharply straight up to 100% at 3 lobes and continues as an arrow off to the right.
Alt text
A four-panel comic. A woman with brown hair talks with a green, almond-eyed alien. Panel 1: the alien says that if simulated realities are possible there should be more of them than real ones, so "This is probably all fake!" The woman chuckles, "hehe." Panel 2: she asks "What's funny?" Panel 3: the alien replies that she is "Two small lobes of fat sitting in an unlit cavity atop an evolved ape body," nervous about whether it's really experiencing things. Panel 4: the woman counters, "I could say the same of you, Zoktrax," and the alien retorts, "I have THREE lobes." Votey: a hand-drawn graph with the vertical axis labeled "Sapience" (0% to 100%) and horizontal axis labeled "Lobes" (1 to 4). A red line stays flat at zero through 1 and 2 lobes, then leaps straight up to 100% exactly at 3 lobes, joking that three brain lobes is the threshold for true sapience.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.