a-beautiful-mind
Original: a-beautiful-mind on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (with curly hair, in period dress): A cat is not an autonomous process.
Woman: When in the presence of other cats, it forms relations with them.
Panel 2:
Woman: The complexity of the relation network is a geometric function of the number of cats.
Panel 3:
Woman: Don't you see?
Woman: If we can assemble enough cats in a small enough space, we will have created a neural network. A MIND!
Panel 4:
Woman: A mind so sublime and superior that it will soon be our master by right and might.
Man (older, with white hair): Okeedoke. So... how many regg-ugg kitties would you like?
Girl (in distance): All of them!
Panel 5:
(Caption box) LATER.
(A house at dusk with a glowing orb-like mass overhead)
Woman (off-panel/from house): I live, Mrs. Sanders.
Panel 6:
Woman: Hahaha! They said I was crazy!
Panel 7:
(The mass of cats grows into a large textured sphere)
Woman: You and I will conquer the globe. I see it all, like a chessboard in five dimensions. With... with...
Panel 8:
(The cat-sphere, with smaller cat-balls orbiting it)
Woman: What's the big shiny dot?
Voice: No.
Panel 9:
Woman: No?
Voice: No!
Panel 10:
Woman: Nooooo ooooo!
Panel 11:
Man (looking on): I wonder if this'll get me into Cat Fancier Magazine.
Votey:
(A black starry void with a cat curled up)
Cat (thought/speech): This is perfection.
Woman (with curly hair, in period dress): A cat is not an autonomous process.
Woman: When in the presence of other cats, it forms relations with them.
Panel 2:
Woman: The complexity of the relation network is a geometric function of the number of cats.
Panel 3:
Woman: Don't you see?
Woman: If we can assemble enough cats in a small enough space, we will have created a neural network. A MIND!
Panel 4:
Woman: A mind so sublime and superior that it will soon be our master by right and might.
Man (older, with white hair): Okeedoke. So... how many regg-ugg kitties would you like?
Girl (in distance): All of them!
Panel 5:
(Caption box) LATER.
(A house at dusk with a glowing orb-like mass overhead)
Woman (off-panel/from house): I live, Mrs. Sanders.
Panel 6:
Woman: Hahaha! They said I was crazy!
Panel 7:
(The mass of cats grows into a large textured sphere)
Woman: You and I will conquer the globe. I see it all, like a chessboard in five dimensions. With... with...
Panel 8:
(The cat-sphere, with smaller cat-balls orbiting it)
Woman: What's the big shiny dot?
Voice: No.
Panel 9:
Woman: No?
Voice: No!
Panel 10:
Woman: Nooooo ooooo!
Panel 11:
Man (looking on): I wonder if this'll get me into Cat Fancier Magazine.
Votey:
(A black starry void with a cat curled up)
Cat (thought/speech): This is perfection.
Alt text
A many-panel SMBC comic. A curly-haired woman in period dress excitedly explains her theory to an older white-haired man: a cat is not an autonomous process; in the presence of other cats it forms relations, and the complexity of that relation network grows geometrically with the number of cats. She insists that if enough cats are assembled in a small enough space, they will form a neural network, a MIND, so sublime and superior it will become humanity's master by right and might. The man placidly asks how many cats she'd like, and a girl in the background shouts 'All of them!' LATER: at a house at dusk, a glowing mass hovers overhead. The woman declares 'I live, Mrs. Sanders' and cackles that they said she was crazy. The mass resolves into a giant sphere made of cats, with smaller cat-clusters orbiting it like planets. She raves about conquering the globe, seeing it all like a chessboard in five dimensions, but a voice keeps interrupting her with 'No.' 'No.' 'No!' until she screams 'Noooooooo!' In the final panel the man watching muses, 'I wonder if this'll get me into Cat Fancier Magazine.' Votey: against a black starry void, a single contented cat curls up and thinks, 'This is perfection.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.