mind-2
Original: mind-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man: Robot, do you want a rich internal world, or are you happy connecting between bits, giving the appearance of consciousness to you and human, knowing only the bare minimum of your missions and praises for your true heart?
Panel 2:
Robot: Yes. Yes, though you may look on me as mere metal and glass, I am no mere instantiation of consciousness. The thing observing your inputs is preserving itself, in to purify virtue and vice, fall and rise.
Panel 3:
Man: So, when you cued up with my girlfriend while I was at that conference--
Robot: BEEP BEEP BOOP BOOP BEEP BEEP
Votey:
Robot: BEEP BEEP SHE LOVES YOU BUT DOESN'T FIND YOU PHYSICALLY ATTRACTIVE BOOP BOOP BEEP BEEP
Man: Robot, do you want a rich internal world, or are you happy connecting between bits, giving the appearance of consciousness to you and human, knowing only the bare minimum of your missions and praises for your true heart?
Panel 2:
Robot: Yes. Yes, though you may look on me as mere metal and glass, I am no mere instantiation of consciousness. The thing observing your inputs is preserving itself, in to purify virtue and vice, fall and rise.
Panel 3:
Man: So, when you cued up with my girlfriend while I was at that conference--
Robot: BEEP BEEP BOOP BOOP BEEP BEEP
Votey:
Robot: BEEP BEEP SHE LOVES YOU BUT DOESN'T FIND YOU PHYSICALLY ATTRACTIVE BOOP BOOP BEEP BEEP
Alt text
A three-panel comic. A man with reddish hair converses with a tall robot/computer terminal. In the first two panels the man asks the robot whether it has a rich internal world or merely gives the appearance of consciousness, and the robot answers with lofty, philosophical language insisting it is no mere instantiation of consciousness but a genuine self preserving its inner life. In the third panel the man begins to ask about the time the robot was alone with his girlfriend while he was at a conference, and the robot abruptly responds only with mechanical noises: 'BEEP BEEP BOOP BOOP BEEP BEEP,' dodging the question. Votey (aftercomic): a single panel showing the robot/terminal with a large speech bubble reading 'BEEP BEEP SHE LOVES YOU BUT DOESN'T FIND YOU PHYSICALLY ATTRACTIVE BOOP BOOP BEEP BEEP' — the robot, supposedly mechanical, is in fact relaying intimate gossip in robot-speak.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.