panpsychism

A six-panel SMBC comic. A dark-haired woman tells a blonde woman: "I'm a panpsychist. I believe we are surrounded by objects that by processing information partake of some portion of consciousness." The blonde says "Oh?" and the dark-haired woman flatly adds "Stupid." She continues, "Look around you. What consciousness do you see?" while gesturing at a starry sky. The narration lists examples: "Maples try to grow in dumpsters. Seagulls eat plastic. You got fish who die trying to swim into nuclear reactor heat dumps. You got humans who literally go to war due to semantic confusion in religious views." She concludes, "That's why I'm a pan-moronist. I think everything around us can think but none of it is good at thinking." The blonde replies, "Okay but then you do agree that everything can think," and the dark-haired woman says, "And like I said, it's stupid" as two tiny figures stand under a vast night sky. Votey: a man with frizzy, cloud-like hair flings his arms wide and declares, "We all partake of our own portion of the idiocy of this stupid cosmos."