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Original: am on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (dark hair): Do you like me for who I am?
Man (curly/flame-like hair): Naw.
Panel 2:
Man: I'm just another being, experiencing an approximation of you through my sense data.
Panel 3:
Man: Even you, who have access to your own mental processes, don't have a full picture of the workings of your mind, and otherwise you would never suppress yourself.
Panel 4:
Woman: I would say I like my subjective experience of you, based on my limited multiple sense modalities. But I have no consistent reliable impression of a steve-in-itself, which I take to mean a self-consistent notion.
Panel 5:
Woman: Well, I like how I like you.
Man: Steven, I have broken up with greater men for far lesser epistemological errors.
Votey:
Man: At least I think I have. There's no way to be 100% certain.
Woman (dark hair): Do you like me for who I am?
Man (curly/flame-like hair): Naw.
Panel 2:
Man: I'm just another being, experiencing an approximation of you through my sense data.
Panel 3:
Man: Even you, who have access to your own mental processes, don't have a full picture of the workings of your mind, and otherwise you would never suppress yourself.
Panel 4:
Woman: I would say I like my subjective experience of you, based on my limited multiple sense modalities. But I have no consistent reliable impression of a steve-in-itself, which I take to mean a self-consistent notion.
Panel 5:
Woman: Well, I like how I like you.
Man: Steven, I have broken up with greater men for far lesser epistemological errors.
Votey:
Man: At least I think I have. There's no way to be 100% certain.
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. A woman with dark hair and a man with curly, flame-like hair stand talking. She asks, 'Do you like me for who I am?' He replies, 'Naw,' then explains that he is just another being experiencing an approximation of her through his sense data, and that even she doesn't have a full picture of her own mind. She counters that she likes her subjective experience of him based on her limited sense modalities, but has no reliable impression of a 'steve-in-itself.' She concludes, 'Well, I like how I like you.' He answers, 'Steven, I have broken up with greater men for far lesser epistemological errors.' Votey: a close-up of the man's face, looking uncertain, adding, 'At least I think I have. There's no way to be 100% certain.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.