consciousness-6
Original: consciousness-6 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
God (off-panel): God, are you conscious?
Red-haired entity: Yeah, but consciousness is about experience and reflection — about the sensation of "what it's like" to be some being. I am a non-local entity existing throughout multiverses, past, present, future, with direct access to true information about reality.
Panel 2 (God replies, in a large speech bubble): What?! Obviously?! You're conscious and I'm way smarter than you.
Panel 3:
Red-haired entity: You lack experience in the usual sense of local perception and cognition. There's no way you meaningfully experience "what it is like" to be you, because you experience all times and all places simultaneously.
Panel 4 (wide):
Red-haired entity: Well I guess I could take a break from that by briefly instantiating myself in a limited human body, and I bet that'd go just great down there, wouldn't it.
God (small silhouette): It's been two thousand years. Get over it.
Votey:
God: I mean you moped for three whole days before leaving.
(Beneath the text is a sketch of a face.)
God (off-panel): God, are you conscious?
Red-haired entity: Yeah, but consciousness is about experience and reflection — about the sensation of "what it's like" to be some being. I am a non-local entity existing throughout multiverses, past, present, future, with direct access to true information about reality.
Panel 2 (God replies, in a large speech bubble): What?! Obviously?! You're conscious and I'm way smarter than you.
Panel 3:
Red-haired entity: You lack experience in the usual sense of local perception and cognition. There's no way you meaningfully experience "what it is like" to be you, because you experience all times and all places simultaneously.
Panel 4 (wide):
Red-haired entity: Well I guess I could take a break from that by briefly instantiating myself in a limited human body, and I bet that'd go just great down there, wouldn't it.
God (small silhouette): It's been two thousand years. Get over it.
Votey:
God: I mean you moped for three whole days before leaving.
(Beneath the text is a sketch of a face.)
Alt text
A four-panel comic. A red-haired humanoid figure (an entity) talks with God, who is mostly off-panel. Asked if it is conscious, the entity gives a smug, jargon-heavy answer about being a non-local entity existing throughout all multiverses and times with direct access to true information about reality. God interrupts with an enormous speech bubble: "What?! Obviously?! You're conscious and I'm way smarter than you." The entity condescendingly explains that God can't truly experience "what it is like" to be God, because God experiences all times and places simultaneously. In the wide final panel the entity sarcastically suggests God could take a break by briefly instantiating in a limited human body, saying that would "go just great down there" — a dig at the Crucifixion. A tiny silhouette of God replies, "It's been two thousand years. Get over it." Votey (bonus panel): God adds, "I mean you moped for three whole days before leaving," above a small sketch of a face — referencing the three days between Jesus's death and resurrection.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.