Comic #6636: mans

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Panel 1: Person: "Zorkrang, where does consciousness come from?"

Zorkrang: "Same in every intelligent species: from the tiny man on a tiny stage who lives inside your brain."

Panel 2: Zorkrang: "Different brain regions deliver prompts, like 'I'm hungry,' 'I want sex,' 'What's 68 times 2?' and the tiny man directs the action."

Panel 3: Person: "You mean this like a metaphor."

Zorkrang: "No. I'm talking about the tiny man in your brain. Don't you guys scan brains?"

Panel 4: Person: "We don't have a tiny man."

Zorkrang: "What do you mean?"

Panel 5: Person: "Our brains are just like… networks of connections."

Zorkrang: "What the… like a rhizome or something?"

Person: "I guess so."

Panel 6: Zorkrang: "Sweet Zorzjesus, but how does it…"

Panel 7: Person: "Wow, this is like finding out that a loaf of cheese can do linear algebra. Amazing!"

Panel 8: Zorkrang: "Wait, wait, wait. If there's a tiny brain-man, where does the tiny man's consciousness come from?"

Zorkrang: "Nice try. It's tiny mans all the way down."