metaphysics
Original: metaphysics on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (with frizzy red hair): Do you think reality is real?
Girl (dark hair, glasses): That sounds like metaphysics to me.
Panel 2:
Woman: All of your sensations are in your brain, in the present. So, everything outside your brain and everything in the future or past is beyond human access.
Panel 3:
Woman: And it takes tens of milliseconds from perception of a phenomenon to cognition of it. By the time you're aware of something, it's in the past, which we just established doesn't exist.
Panel 4:
Woman: Nihilism isn't some complex philosophical stance. It's common sense.
Panel 5:
(The girl reaches a door with a doorknob.)
Panel 6 (silhouettes at night, a small fire burning):
Girl: Is that why we're leaving flaming poop outside Mr. Gibson's door?
Woman: That is in the inaccessible past!
Votey:
Woman (whispering, leaning down to the girl): If he gets mad, call him a solipsist and run like hell.
Woman (with frizzy red hair): Do you think reality is real?
Girl (dark hair, glasses): That sounds like metaphysics to me.
Panel 2:
Woman: All of your sensations are in your brain, in the present. So, everything outside your brain and everything in the future or past is beyond human access.
Panel 3:
Woman: And it takes tens of milliseconds from perception of a phenomenon to cognition of it. By the time you're aware of something, it's in the past, which we just established doesn't exist.
Panel 4:
Woman: Nihilism isn't some complex philosophical stance. It's common sense.
Panel 5:
(The girl reaches a door with a doorknob.)
Panel 6 (silhouettes at night, a small fire burning):
Girl: Is that why we're leaving flaming poop outside Mr. Gibson's door?
Woman: That is in the inaccessible past!
Votey:
Woman (whispering, leaning down to the girl): If he gets mad, call him a solipsist and run like hell.
Alt text
A frizzy red-haired woman walks a young dark-haired girl in glasses through a snowy night, lecturing her on philosophy. She argues that since all sensations exist only in the brain in the present, everything outside the brain and everything past or future is beyond human access. She adds that because perception takes milliseconds to reach cognition, anything you're aware of is already in the past, which she says doesn't exist. She concludes: 'Nihilism isn't some complex philosophical stance. It's common sense.' In the final panels, shown as silhouettes by a small fire at someone's door, the girl asks, 'Is that why we're leaving flaming poop outside Mr. Gibson's door?' The woman replies, 'That is in the inaccessible past!' Votey: The woman leans down and whispers to the girl, 'If he gets mad, call him a solipsist and run like hell.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.