meat

A four-panel comic showing a breakup conversation between a blonde woman and a boxy robot with a single round green eye. Panel 1: The woman says, "I feel like you think of me as a piece of meat." Panel 2: The robot replies, "You are meat. Meat that I love. Also bones and cartilage. That I also love." Panel 3: The woman, looking unhappy, says, "I'm sorry, I can only be with someone who considers me to be ensouled with a numinous flesh-transcending anima." Panel 4: The robot, now slumped, says, "I think we should see other entities." Votey (aftercomic, black-and-white sketch): The robot leans toward a small framed object and says, "It's not you, it's... look there is no you. Just a story your brain dreams." The joke contrasts the robot's coldly materialist view of consciousness with the woman's desire for a soul.