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potential

Original: potential on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1:
Man (in profile, gesturing): GOD, DO HUMANS HAVE FREE WILL?
God (speaking from an oval/portal): CERTAINLY.

Panel 2:
God: DID YOU KNOW THAT EVEN TEENY TINY MAZES HAVE INFINITE POSSIBLE PATHS?

Panel 3:
God: OF COURSE, A MOUSE IN A MAZE HAS A CHOICE OF INFINITE POSSIBLE PATHS TO THE EXIT. SO YOU KNOW, ROLL THAT INTO YOUR CALCULATIONS.

Panel 4:
God: MOST OF 'EM BASICALLY THE SAME, BUT STILL, WOW!

Panel 5:
God: THEN AGAIN, THERE'S THE FINITE TIME PROBLEM IF YOU'RE MORTAL.

Panel 6:
Man: GOOD THING FOR MY IMMORTAL SOUL!
God: YOUR WHAT NOW?

Votey:
God (speaking from the oval/portal): Oh, you mean Satan's soul, that you're borrowing.

Alt text

A six-panel SMBC comic. A bald man speaks to God, who answers from a glowing oval portal connected by a tube. Man: "God, do humans have free will?" God: "Certainly." God then rambles about how even teeny tiny mazes have infinite possible paths, so a mouse in a maze has infinite paths to the exit "so roll that into your calculations" — adding that most paths are basically the same "but still, wow!" God goes on: "Then again, there's the finite time problem if you're mortal." The man, reassured, says "Good thing for my immortal soul!" God replies, confused: "Your what now?" — the joke being that God seemingly never accounted for the man having an immortal soul. Votey (aftercomic): God's portal floats over empty space and says, "Oh, you mean Satan's soul, that you're borrowing," implying the man's soul isn't really his.

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.