conscious
Original: conscious on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Wise old master (long white hair and beard, seated): My son, to walk this path, you must let go of your conscious self.
Younger man (kneeling student): Way, master?
Panel 2:
Master: Because motor memories are stored as implicit memory, not declarative memory. To use this part of your brain for motor tasks is basically accessing the wrong database.
Panel 3:
Student: Can you rephrase that as mystical wisdom?
Master: Dwell within your inner you know. In-ness.
Student: Thank you, wise master.
Votey:
Master (grinning, speech bubble): That online neuroscience course really streamlined all of my ancient wisdom!
Wise old master (long white hair and beard, seated): My son, to walk this path, you must let go of your conscious self.
Younger man (kneeling student): Way, master?
Panel 2:
Master: Because motor memories are stored as implicit memory, not declarative memory. To use this part of your brain for motor tasks is basically accessing the wrong database.
Panel 3:
Student: Can you rephrase that as mystical wisdom?
Master: Dwell within your inner you know. In-ness.
Student: Thank you, wise master.
Votey:
Master (grinning, speech bubble): That online neuroscience course really streamlined all of my ancient wisdom!
Alt text
A four-panel comic. A wise old master with long white hair and a beard sits cross-legged, instructing a kneeling younger student. Panel 1: the master says "My son, to walk this path, you must let go of your conscious self," and the student asks "Way, master?" Panel 2: the master explains in dry technical terms that motor memories are stored as implicit, not declarative, memory, so using that part of the brain for motor tasks is basically accessing the wrong database. Panel 3: the student asks "Can you rephrase that as mystical wisdom?" and the master vaguely replies "Dwell within your inner... you know. In-ness," to which the student gratefully says "Thank you, wise master." The joke is that real neuroscience gets dressed up as vague spiritual aphorism. Votey: a close-up of the grinning master saying, "That online neuroscience course really streamlined all of my ancient wisdom!" revealing his "ancient wisdom" is just a repackaged online class.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.