Comic #5465: metaphysics

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Panel 1: Person 1: "Do you think reality is real?" Person 2: "That sounds like metaphysics to me."

Panel 2: Person 2: "All of your sensations are in your brain, in the present. So, everything outside your brain and everything in the future or past is beyond human access."

Panel 3: Person 2: "And it takes tens of milliseconds from perception of a phenomenon to cognition of it. By the time you’re aware of something, it’s in the past, which we just established doesn’t exist."

Panel 4: Person 2: "Nihilism isn’t some complex philosophical stance. It’s common sense."

Panel 5: Person 1: "Is that why we’re leaving flaming poop outside Mr. Gibson’s door?" Person 2: "That is in the inaccessible past!"