Comic #2648: 2012-08-16

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Panel 1: Daddy? Say I had surgery… and say, halfway through, the anaesthesia wore off, and I woke up and started screaming.

Panel 2: So, then the doctors give me a sedative to calm me down. Then I wake up after surgery, and I don’t remember any of it.

Panel 3: If I don’t remember, but it definitely happened… who suffered?

Panel 4: Oh, that’s easy. There’s no such thing as a persistent 'you.'

Panel 5: So… the me from surgery is dead?

Panel 6: Sweetie, no! Not dead. The “you” from surgery never existed. Your brain was just representing a “you” for convenience, like it is right now!

Panel 7: But don’t feel bad! That old representation got to experience the extremes of emotion and sensation for its entire existence. I mean…

Panel 8: What’s this representation of you going to experience?

Panel 9: I thought… maybe… this representation of me would spend today pudding and watching cartoons.

Panel 10: Well, I hope that’s fulfilling.

Panel 11: Later

Panel 12: It’s all a farce.

Panel 13: What did your father say to you?

Panel 14: “Father” doesn’t exist.

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