philosopher

A four-panel Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic. Panel 1: A woman tells a bearded man in glasses, "I like to think of Jesus not so much as a prophet but as a great philosopher." The man muses, "Hmm..." Panel 2: A close-up of the man's thoughtful face as he says, "If true, what would that imply..." Panel 3, captioned "JERUSALEM, A.D. 33": The scene cuts to Jesus hanging on the cross, who turns to the man being crucified beside him and asks, "Sure, but are we experiencing the same *qualia* of being crucified?" The other crucified man gives him a tired, deadpan look. The joke imagines Jesus-the-philosopher pestering a fellow crucifixion victim with a philosophy-of-mind question about qualia at the worst possible moment. Votey (bonus panel): A close-up of an annoyed long-haired bearded man declaring, "I told you, I only have the *appearance* of conscious experience!" - a punchline about philosophical zombies and the hard problem of consciousness.