If he could communicate it to us then Hawking would probably say some humorous witty remark about death.
(Mar 14, 2018 03:18 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]Free at last Stephen.
Not that he would ever know, if what he believed were true.
"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail," he said. "There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nati...423344002/
What a disappointing vacuum in the pop-culture market there is going to be not hearing a new prophecy or insight every year about something, whenever Stephen got up on the scientism pulpit. From a purely North American perspective, it's akin to Uncle Walter (Cronkite) either retiring or passing away for a former generation of the '60s and '70s.
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(Mar 18, 2018 07:11 PM)C C Wrote: [ -> ]What a disappointing vacuum in the pop-culture market there is going to be not hearing a new prophecy or insight every year about something, whenever Stephen got up on the scientism pulpit. From a purely North American perspective, it's akin to Uncle Walter (Cronkite) either retiring or passing away for a former generation of the '60s and '70s.
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Nonsense. His prophecies were just preaching to the scientism choir, outside of which they seemed largely crankish. Comparing that choir to Cronkite's audience is silly.