Sentient Status Revoked

"Your sentient status has been revoked" has to be the worst thing you can hear to start your day.

Lately, I’ve been getting into Scenes From A Multiverse. It’s a delightfully twisted webcomic by Jonathan Rosenberg that hits me in a funny way.

My continuing doubts about the existence of free will make me feel like that skinny green-gray female.

If we are someday visited by highly evolved alien life, it is distinctly possible that we’ll all be cited for pretending to be sentient lifeforms. The intergalactic normalization bureaucracy will not stand for it.

But, it’s not our fault. Maybe we can get by on a sentience-disability technicality. Why should I be held accountable for the gross deficiencies of our collective evolutionary past?

Anyway, read more here.

About Matt Warren

I'm a husband, father, gamer, and restless quasi-intellectual. My interests include reading, gaming, and juggling knives while blindfolded and barrel-running down a steep hill.