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A seven-panel black-and-white SMBC comic. A woman with curly hair asks a bald man if he thinks the brain is a computer. He says "Nah, and I can prove it," and is shown holding a floppy disk, saying he's "trying to install your brain - this is floppy disk 1 of 4." He argues the human brain can't run Doom, therefore it isn't a computer. The woman clarifies she means the brain can compute, not that it's like a desktop machine. He concedes the brain can compute, but so can anything with at least two states - pigeons, balls, birds, cards. The woman sighs. She asks where he gets those discs anyway, and he replies that he carries them around in case of arguments about consciousness. In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the bald man's face: he says "They also work for free will because you want me to stop but I won't." The joke is the deadpan absurdist who weaponizes obsolete floppy disks as props in pointless philosophy-of-mind arguments.