conscious-4
Original: conscious-4 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with red hair: Consciousness is just a system observing itself.
Woman with dark curly hair: How dare you!
Panel 2:
Woman (eyes wide, alarmed): Are you saying I'm not conscious?
Panel 3:
Man: Don't you ever introspect?
Panel 4:
Woman (gripping her head, panicking): AAH! NO! AAH! I'm remembering embarrassing stuff from middle school now you son of a bitch!
Panel 5:
Woman (calmer): Okay. Phew. Okay. I think I'm back to having no complex internal sense of self.
Woman: Teach me your ways.
Votey:
Man (caption text): First step: have a phone. Second step: never stop looking at stuff on the phone.
(The woman is shown blankly looking down, presumably at a phone.)
Man with red hair: Consciousness is just a system observing itself.
Woman with dark curly hair: How dare you!
Panel 2:
Woman (eyes wide, alarmed): Are you saying I'm not conscious?
Panel 3:
Man: Don't you ever introspect?
Panel 4:
Woman (gripping her head, panicking): AAH! NO! AAH! I'm remembering embarrassing stuff from middle school now you son of a bitch!
Panel 5:
Woman (calmer): Okay. Phew. Okay. I think I'm back to having no complex internal sense of self.
Woman: Teach me your ways.
Votey:
Man (caption text): First step: have a phone. Second step: never stop looking at stuff on the phone.
(The woman is shown blankly looking down, presumably at a phone.)
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. A red-haired man tells a dark-haired woman, "Consciousness is just a system observing itself." She snaps, "How dare you!" Wide-eyed, she asks, "Are you saying I'm not conscious?" He replies, "Don't you ever introspect?" She clutches her head and panics: "AAH! NO! AAH! I'm remembering embarrassing stuff from middle school now you son of a bitch!" Then she calms down and says, "Okay. Phew. Okay. I think I'm back to having no complex internal sense of self. Teach me your ways." Votey panel: the man advises, "First step: have a phone. Second step: never stop looking at stuff on the phone," while the woman stares blankly downward. The joke is that introspection is so painful that mindlessly staring at a phone is the cure for self-awareness.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.