Comic #4464: monism

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Panel 1 Text: "Monists believe there is no distinction between mind and body."

Panel 2 Text: "Dualists believe mind and body are, in some sense, separate aspects of being."

Panel 3 Text: "There's a lively debate here, but the important thing to notice is that both are talking about the same human beings."

Panel 4 Text: "This proves that you can add 1 to the quantity of aspects of being without altering the being itself."

Panel 5 Text: "By induction, you can be a monist, dualist, triplist, quadruplist, and so on. There are literally infinite permitted philosophies in ontology-space!"

Panel 6 Text: "Personally, I am a ten-to-the-twenty-seventh-powerist, in that I believe every one of the atoms in my body is meaningfully distinct."

Panel 7 Text: "You've taken a difficult philosophy problem and reduced it to a tractable but pointless math problem."

Panel 8 Text: "You may also be interested in my work on free will!"

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