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==Transcript==
==Transcript==
:[Panel 1: A girl talking to her father in a green void.]
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:Girl: Daddy? Say I had surgery... And say, halfway through, the anaesthesia wore off, and I woke up and started screaming.
:[Describe panel here]
:[Panel 2]
:Daddy? Say I had surc-ery. And say, halfway through, the anaesthesia wore off and I woke up and started screaming.
:Girl: So, then the doctors give me a sedative to calm me down then I wake up after surgery and I don't remember any of it.
:So, then the doctors give me a sedative to calm me down then I wake up after surgery and I don't remember any of it.
:[Panel 3]
:If I don't remember, but it definitely happened who suffered?
:Girl: If I don't remember, but it definitely happened... who suffered?
:Oh, that's eagy. There's no such thing as a persistent you!
:[Panel 4]
:so.
:Father: Oh, that's easy. There's no such thing as a persistent you!
:The me from
:Girl: So... The me from surgery is dead?
:Surgery is dead?
:[Panel 5: The girl smiles as her father hugs her.]
:Sweetie, no! No, not dead.
:Father: Sweetie, no! No, not dead.
:The "you" from surgery never existed. Your brain was just representing a "you" for convenience. Like it is right now.
:[Panel 6]
:But don't feel bad! That old representation got to experience the extremes of emotion and sensation for its entire existence/ I mean. What's this representation of you going to experience?
:Father: The "you" from surgery never existed. Your brain was just representing a "you" for convenience. Like it is right now.
:I thought maybe this representation of me would spend today eating pudding and watching
:[Panel 7]
:Cartoons.
:Father: But don't feel bad! That old representation got to experience the extremes of emotion and sensation for its entire existence/ I mean. :What's this representation of you going to experience?
:Well. I hope that's fulfilling
:[Panel 8: The girl stands alone in the frame against a black background, frowning.]
:Later
:[Panel 9: Back to a green background.]
:It's all a farce.
:Girl: I thought... Maybe... This representation of me would spend today eating pudding and watching cartoons.
:What did your father say to you?
:Father: Well, I hope that's fulfilling
:"father' doesn't exist.
:[Panel 10: The girl and her mother, now against a violet background.]
:Caption over panel: Later
:Girl: It's all a farce.
:Girl's Mother: What did your father say to you?
:Girl: "Father" doesn't exist.
 
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