consciousness-2

A four-panel SMBC comic. Two men talk on a city street. A man with spiky orange hair asks a bald man in a suit, "Do you think we can create conscious machines?" The bald man replies, "What? That's crazy. We don't even have a theory of consciousness!" The orange-haired man says, "Neither did evolution," then adds, "And just look how that turned out," as the bald man gestures at himself with an unimpressed expression, the punchline being that evolution produced conscious beings without any theory either. Votey aftercomic: a crudely drawn human face beneath a speech bubble reading "It IS pretty gross," conceding that the result of evolution is, indeed, gross.