Conscious-5

|< < Prev Comic #6840 (July 18, 2023) Next > >|

Conscious - The Universe

Title text: Announcing The Universe: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness! Click this comic or check the blog!

Votey

Explanation

This explanation is either missing or incomplete.

Transcript

This transcript was generated by a bot: The text was scraped using AWS's Textract, which may have errors. Complete transcripts should also describe what happens in each panel.

[Describe panel here]

God, what is consciousness?

Man humans are boring

Look this is just a definition thing and the definitions are on a spectrum. You can say consciousness is whenever a system can examine itself and make adjustments that's clear and sensible but now you gotta include stuff that really doesn't seem conscious like a program that plays checkers.

You can scale up to saying "it has to have subjective experience" which requires you to define subjective and experience. But now you're in this hideous infinite regression where you define subjectivity subjectively and define experience based on your experience.

You can get more exclusive and say a conscious being is anything with a brain more or less like mine, which is mostly soggy cholesterol devoted to thinking about food and butts.

For all I know there are humans somewhere like "consciousness is when you're me and my friends dave, jerry, and bill and nobody else."

Thanks god, but I think you're missing the point?

"is it conscious" is shorthand for "can I treat it like trash all the time, maybe eat it, then go play video games and not feel shame."

I've been running heaven for 13 billion years and nobody has shown up and now I know why

Evolution is a bad way to make life but the important thing is you're learning!

smbc-comics.com

Votey Transcript

This transcript was generated by a bot: The text was scraped using AWS's Textract, which may have errors. Complete transcripts should also describe what happens in each panel.

[Describe panel here]

0

flush's ":"

 add a comment! ⋅  add a topic (use sparingly)! ⋅  refresh comments!

Discussion

No comments yet!