In the comic, I believe the idea is that this entity is moving the rocks by hand, but following the rules of computing which slowly, but steadily, creates the w

In the comic, I believe the idea is that this entity is moving the rocks by hand, but following the rules of computing which slowly, but steadily, creates the world as a computer simulation. And in this case, the qualia would be an emergent property of that simulation, but how that happens or whether it happens at all is a much bigger debate...