Comic #2809: 2013-01-25

Description

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Description: The comic features two green aliens discussing consciousness while floating in space. The backdrop is dark with stars, and the aliens have large, expressive eyes and simplistic body features. Each panel captures a different moment in their conversation.

Panel 1:

Alien 1: "Do you think humans have consciousness?"
Alien 2: "HA!"

Panel 2:

Alien 2: "No way."
Alien 1: "But they have self-awareness, empathy, language, ethics…"

Panel 3:

Alien 1: "Yeah, but they don’t have Znurg’naq, that’s unique to we Zorblaxians. And humans only have a very primitive form of Zchoeq’yarf."
Alien 2: "So, at best, they’ve got like 70% of consciousness."

Panel 4:

Alien 1: "I dunno. Maybe 'consciousness' is just a sort of grab bag of things that are special about us, which we’re therefore giving primacy."
Alien 2: "Oh please."

Panel 5:

Alien 1: "If there ARE other conscious beings in the universe, they'll have Znurg’naq. I mean, otherwise how would they Znurg?"
Alien 2: "True. Very true."

Panel 6 (Elsewhere):

A different scene with a woman and a man lying on a grassy surface looking up at the stars.
Woman: "Do you think chimps are truly conscious?"
Man: "Come on. They can barely use syntax."

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