Comic #3370: 2014-08-09
Description
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Panel 1:
- Person 1: "Do you think we have free will?"
- Person 2: "PAH!"
Panel 2:
- Person 2: "It's a vacuous question. Does a vast assemblage of neurons, many of them in open competition, have 'free will'?"
Panel 3:
- Person 2: "It's like asking if a city has free will! I mean, it makes choices, but it's not as if there's some dictator directing things."
Panel 4:
- Person 1: "But, if there's no free will, how does justice work? How can people be held responsible for their actions?"
Panel 5:
- Person 2: "It's one of the hard consequences of realism. We have to live with it."
Panel 6:
- Person 1: "I overfed your goldfish today. It's dead."
Panel 7:
- Person 2: "WHAT?"