Explain SMBC — the wiki for Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

This comic illustrates the concept that human consciousness is not a single unified entity by depicting a brain arguing with itself about attraction. The caption reads: "Anyone who thinks he has a single unified consciousness has never been dating."

The brain has multiple speech bubbles representing different internal voices in conflict. One voice notices a woman and rationalizes attraction through evolutionary logic ("If we have kids with her, she'll provide extra milk!"). Another voice counters that this is "an evolutionary deception." A third voice announces it will tell the mouth to whistle at her, while a fourth protests that catcalling does not even work. The joke touches on the philosophical and neuroscientific idea that the mind is composed of competing impulses and rationalizations, and that dating situations make this internal conflict especially obvious and absurd.