Comic #5862: evolution-8
Description
Here’s the transcription of the comic text:
Panel 1:
- Character (girl): "Dear evolution, why did you make it so we believe in free will?"
- Character (evolution): "Same reason I made you believe you could communicate with disembodied concepts."
Panel 2:
- Character (evolution): "Once you evolve to a certain level of consciousness, brains get freaked at the idea that they’re just a piece of meat, decaying, embedded in a biological system."
Panel 3:
- Character (evolution): "In order to keep making the brain bigger without compromising sanity, I gotta introduce all sorts of weird delusions. A afterlife, free will, love, and an undefined concept called 'meaningfulness.' All byproducts of process. Evolutionary slag."
Panel 4:
- Character (evolution): "Emotions like sorrow are just calculation heuristics."
- Character (girl): "Stop it!"