Temptation
Explanation
This comic explores the philosophical problem of how an immaterial soul could be tempted by material things. A woman asks a man if he believes in an immaterial soul, and he confirms he does. She then poses the logical puzzle: how can a material body affect an immaterial substance?
She sets up a thought experiment: imagine two matched souls, one in a body that wants to eat cake and one without a body. She argues that the soul without a body cannot be tempted by cake because it does not have the requisite physical desires -- it has no taste buds, no hunger drive, no dopamine system. Therefore, any "temptation" is really just the body's physical urges, and the soul is irrelevant to the process. If the soul cannot be tempted independently, then it is the body, not the soul, being tested -- making the soul "a meat-puppet to a being that already decided the test."
The man's response -- "My soul does just fine, it's my body that keeps messing up" -- is meant to be a rebuttal but actually proves her point. In the votey, the woman says "I mean it would dare to sin," reinforcing the philosophical argument. The comic is a concise illustration of the interaction problem in philosophy of mind (how can a non-physical substance interact with a physical one), applied specifically to religious concepts of temptation and moral testing.