Comic #5606: znurg-2
Description
Here is the transcription of the comic:
Panel 1:
- Character 1: Is consciousness special?
- Character 2: What? No, no.
Panel 2:
- Character 2: Consciousness is common in the universe. It’s just the ability of a brain to assess its own functions.
Panel 3:
- Character 1: Look, here’s a chip we made that endows anything it’s connected to with “consciousness.” Cats, microbes, furniture…
- Character 2: What’s rare is superpositional thought - the ability to draw answers from the quantum nature of reality by combining computation across the many branches of the multiverse.
Panel 4:
- Character 1: Can humans znurg?
- Character 2: Hahahahaha! Jesus, that’s cute. Hey, did you just znurg up with that very insightful question?
Panel 5:
- Character 1: Could… could you make a chip that lets us znurg?
- Character 2: Nah.
Panel 6:
- Character 1: If we did that, it wouldn’t be cool to eat you.
Panel 7:
- Character 1: Thaaaaaaaaaat’s why I’m in this tub of marinade.
Panel 8:
- Character 2: Great znurging there, genius!