holism
Original: holism on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (with glasses, to a woman with gray hair): You scientists are too reductionist! The universe can't be made into a simple computer model!
Panel 2:
Woman (gray hair): How do you know that?
Panel 3:
Man: I have read several blog posts, which have allowed me to form a HOLISTIC and ALL-ENCOMPASSING vision of how your field of study probably works!
Panel 4:
Woman: Boy, there's so much wrong with how science works, but it's never the stuff people THINK is wrong.
Man (gesturing emphatically): LOOK! 4000 lines of code and not one mention of LOVE!
Votey:
Man (in a speech bubble): I express love via medium-quality commenting.
(Below: a drawing of a cat curled up.)
Man (with glasses, to a woman with gray hair): You scientists are too reductionist! The universe can't be made into a simple computer model!
Panel 2:
Woman (gray hair): How do you know that?
Panel 3:
Man: I have read several blog posts, which have allowed me to form a HOLISTIC and ALL-ENCOMPASSING vision of how your field of study probably works!
Panel 4:
Woman: Boy, there's so much wrong with how science works, but it's never the stuff people THINK is wrong.
Man (gesturing emphatically): LOOK! 4000 lines of code and not one mention of LOVE!
Votey:
Man (in a speech bubble): I express love via medium-quality commenting.
(Below: a drawing of a cat curled up.)
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A bespectacled man passionately tells a gray-haired woman, "You scientists are too reductionist! The universe can't be made into a simple computer model!" Panel 2: The woman replies flatly, "How do you know that?" Panel 3: The man, eyes wide, says, "I have read several blog posts, which have allowed me to form a HOLISTIC and ALL-ENCOMPASSING vision of how your field of study probably works!" Panel 4: The woman remarks, "Boy, there's so much wrong with how science works, but it's never the stuff people THINK is wrong," while the man gestures wildly and shouts, "LOOK! 4000 lines of code and not one mention of LOVE!" Votey (aftercomic): The man declares, "I express love via medium-quality commenting," above a small drawing of a curled-up cat. The joke skewers confident non-experts who critique scientific work based on superficial reading rather than real understanding.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.