Consciousness-6

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Consciousness

Title text: Oh right, you're experiencing it from a state of total oneness wherein time is without meaning, my bad.

Votey

Explanation

It is a core part of Christian belief that Jesus (God the Son) is a physical incarnation of God the Father. It is also a core belief that God knows everything everywhere all at once (omniscience), as the man explains. Thus what happened when God "instantiated himself in a limited human body" was Jesus, whose life did not "go just great down there" under most metrics, as he was nailed to a cross and left to die for 6 hours. While most Christians would claim that Jesus's death was suicide blood magic planned by God (himself) all along to forgive everyone's sins, and thus a good thing, SMBC is known among other things for its unorthodox theology, and the death of Jesus is implied to have been a negative outcome to God, who just wanted to understand how it felt to be one of his creations.

The votey refers to Jesus being resurrected after 3 days (dying on a friday and being raised on a sunday) and going to Heaven.

Transcript

[A man is praying with his hands together.]

Man: "God, are you conscious?"

God: "What? Obviously? You're conscious and I'm way smarter than you."

[Just the man's head is visible.]

Man: "Yeah, but consciousness is about experience and reflection - about the sensation of "what it is like" to be some being. You are a non-local entity existing throughout the multiverses, past, present, future, with direct access to true information about reality."

[Same as previous panel.]

Man: "You lack experience in the usual sense of local perception and cognition. There's no way you meaningfully experience "what it is like" to be you because you experience all times and all places simultaneously."

[A silhouette of the man shouting.]

God: "Well I guess I could take a break from that by briefly instantiating myself in a limited human body and I bet that'd go just great down there wouldn't it."

Man: "It's been two thousand years get over it."

Votey Transcript

[The man speaks angrily.]

Man: "I mean you moped for three whole days before leaving."

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