Comic #5517: thought

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Panel 1: Character 1: "Do you think humans are capable of thought?" Character 2: "What?"

Panel 2: Character 1: "If you take a computer and ask it the best route to Tokyo, not only can it give you the correct answer, it can keep an exact binary register of every step it took to get to the solution!" Character 2: "You can open up its brain and physically find the thought happening!"

Panel 3: Character 1: "With a human, the best you can do is use a scanner to find a rough chemical or electromagnetic signal that, something happened in there." Character 2: "But all we really know is that the human produced an answer. It could've come from anywhere!"

Panel 4: Character 1: "Maybe some mega-mind telepathically transmitted the answer. Or maybe there's a lookup key inside the brain for every possible question. Maybe there's actually a tiny computer chip in there that's doing all the thinking!"

Panel 5: Character 2: "But… I think therefore I am." Character 1: "I can make a computer say that with one line of code."

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