Comic #6307: consciousness

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Panel 1:

• Character 1: "Zorkrang, have your scientists discovered the nature of consciousness?"
• Character 2: "What's consciousness?"

Panel 2:

• Character 1: "I can't really define it, but I'd like to know what it is, you know?"

Panel 3:

• Character 2: "I mean consciousness - like the thing that without it I'm not me."

Panel 4:

• Character 1: "Do you mean executive decision making in the brain? That's mostly in the front part of your head. That's why humans punch at that part when they're having fights."

Panel 5:

• Character 2: "No, like consciousness! The ineffable unified me!"

Panel 6:

• Character 1: "Is this 'consciousness' in the room with us now, Jeremy? Can you point to it?"

Panel 7:

• Character 2: "I'm not hallucinating!"

Panel 8:

• Character 1: "You're asking if Zorblaxian scientists know what a thing is, and you insist it's a real, important thing, but you don't know what the thing is."

Panel 9:

• Character 2: "I hate when you make me feel stupid by saying what I've said back to me."

Panel 10:

• Character 1: "Is that consciousness?"