Article Stephen Hawking's radical final theory + Do apes have a theory of mind?

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Stephen Hawking's radical final theory
https://iai.tv/articles/stephen-hawkings..._auid=2020

INTRO: Stephen Hawking, near the end of his life and career, came to believe that his early work had been mistaken. In particular, Hawking came to believe that science does not provide a "God’s-eye view" of reality. Rather, we need to build a theory of the universe from the inside-out, from within; reasoning backwards from our place as an observer. The later Hawking, along with his collaborator, cosmologist Thomas Hertog, argues for a model of the universe not as a machine, but as a self-organising entity, in which the laws of physics themselves evolved within and after the furnace of the Big Bang... (MORE - details)

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Do apes have a theory of mind?
https://theness.com/neurologicablog/do-a...y-of-mind/

EXCERPTS: The results were pretty solid [...] No one experiment like this is ever definitive, and it’s the job of researchers to think of other and more simple ways to explain the results. But the behavior of the bonobos in this experimental setup matched what was predicted if they indeed have at least a rudimentary theory of mind. They seem to know when the human researcher knew where the treat was, independent of the bonobo’s own knowledge of where the treat was... (MORE - details, no ads)

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So Hawking became an existentialist rather than a materialist in his later years. I think he made the right move. As some philosopher (maybe Heidegger) once observed: "It turns out that I = I is more fundamental than A = A... a most remarkable state of affairs!"