Comic #7175: consciousness-7

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Panel 1: Character 1: "I don’t think humans are really conscious. It’s all just language use masquerading as meaning." Character 2: "What?"

Panel 2: Character 1: "Suppose one scientist told you 'Pions are a type of meson that mediates the strong nuclear force between protons and neutrons.'"

Panel 3: Character 1: "You feel like you’ve acquired information, and you could even transmit that information between two scientists with a rich sense of what the terms mean. But you personally are in fact just making noises without any sense of physical reality."

Panel 4: Character 1: "The truth is all human statements work like this because there is no final, basement-level version of understanding available to you!"

Panel 5: Character 3: "Meaning may exist in this universe, but humans are only capable of reference."

Panel 6: Character 4: "No! My feelings are real! They’re a real condition in reality!" Character 1: "Define 'feelings,' 'real,' and 'condition.'"

Panel 7: Character 4: "Stop it!"

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