brain
Original: brain on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with reddish-brown hair and glasses, seen from behind, sits in front of a glowing computer monitor. A speech bubble emanates from the monitor (the machine speaking):
Machine (computer): "THINK ABOUT IT. YOU'RE JUST A COLLECTION OF NEURONS THAT DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY DO. WHEN "YOU" "DECIDE" TO DO SOMETHING IN YOUR MIND, YOUR BRAIN HAS ALREADY BEGUN A CORRESPONDING NEURAL PROCESS!"
Caption (below panel): In the Advanced Turing Test, the machine convinces you that it's conscious and you aren't.
Votey:
Handwritten text inside a hand-drawn frame, above a drawing of the computer monitor's corner:
"Real consciousness requires a brain 1.2 times larger than the human maximum"
A woman with reddish-brown hair and glasses, seen from behind, sits in front of a glowing computer monitor. A speech bubble emanates from the monitor (the machine speaking):
Machine (computer): "THINK ABOUT IT. YOU'RE JUST A COLLECTION OF NEURONS THAT DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY DO. WHEN "YOU" "DECIDE" TO DO SOMETHING IN YOUR MIND, YOUR BRAIN HAS ALREADY BEGUN A CORRESPONDING NEURAL PROCESS!"
Caption (below panel): In the Advanced Turing Test, the machine convinces you that it's conscious and you aren't.
Votey:
Handwritten text inside a hand-drawn frame, above a drawing of the computer monitor's corner:
"Real consciousness requires a brain 1.2 times larger than the human maximum"
Alt text
A woman with reddish-brown hair and glasses sits with her back to us, facing a glowing computer monitor. A speech bubble comes from the monitor, so the machine is talking: "Think about it. You're just a collection of neurons that don't even understand what they do. When 'you' 'decide' to do something in your mind, your brain has already begun a corresponding neural process!" The caption below reads: "In the Advanced Turing Test, the machine convinces you that it's conscious and you aren't." Votey (bonus panel): handwritten text beside a drawing of the computer's corner reads, "Real consciousness requires a brain 1.2 times larger than the human maximum" — the machine's smug, unfalsifiable goalpost for what counts as real consciousness.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.