bat
Original: bat on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (bespectacled, in suit): Do you think a human can ever REALLY know what it's like to be a bat?
Bat: Nope.
Panel 2:
Bat: Look, it is WEIRD being a bat. You wanna know what we think about all day? It's not poetry and higher mathematics like humans. It's all food, shelter, sex.
Panel 3:
Bat: We have these complex brains evolved over countless generations, literally TRILLIONS of neural connections, but we use them to find out who to bone and where the best snacks are!
Panel 4:
Man: I have no idea what that's like.
Bat: We can never understand each other.
Votey:
Bat (speech bubble): Wanna doink?
Man (bespectacled, in suit): Do you think a human can ever REALLY know what it's like to be a bat?
Bat: Nope.
Panel 2:
Bat: Look, it is WEIRD being a bat. You wanna know what we think about all day? It's not poetry and higher mathematics like humans. It's all food, shelter, sex.
Panel 3:
Bat: We have these complex brains evolved over countless generations, literally TRILLIONS of neural connections, but we use them to find out who to bone and where the best snacks are!
Panel 4:
Man: I have no idea what that's like.
Bat: We can never understand each other.
Votey:
Bat (speech bubble): Wanna doink?
Alt text
A four-panel comic riffing on the philosophy question "What is it like to be a bat?" Panel 1: a bespectacled man in a suit asks a small bat, "Do you think a human can ever REALLY know what it's like to be a bat?" The bat answers, "Nope." Panel 2: a close-up of the bat saying it is weird being a bat, that bats don't think about poetry and higher mathematics like humans, but instead about food, shelter, and sex. Panel 3: the bat explains it has a complex brain with trillions of neural connections, but uses it only to find who to mate with and where the best snacks are. Panel 4: the man, deadpan, says "I have no idea what that's like," and the bat concludes, "We can never understand each other" — the joke being that their inner lives are actually identical. Votey: a close-up cartoon bat face with a speech bubble reading "Wanna doink?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.