If there's to be any fairy stories,
ought not they be found here?
"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop
working when its components fail. There is no heaven or
afterlife for broken down computers;
that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
Hawking forgets that humanity created computers, so essentially, he still doesn't know, much as he thinks he knows.
ReplyDeleterory: i see that "84 charing cross road" is
ReplyDeleteone of your favorites, so you know a thing or two.
But I like stories.
ReplyDeleteAnd fairies.
i simply adore this man. Who is to say he is wrong, just because he was completely off on that whole 'black hole' thing. even quadraplegic geniuses have an off day.
ReplyDeleteWhat makes the incredible insult of personal death bearable is good. In the end all we have, is hope. BTW Hawkings' scientific knowledge is nothing else but another tale, a narration based on pretty strange basical assumptions. Something like a cult, they worship numbers.
ReplyDeleteI prefer the fairies.
What jason said &
ReplyDeleteThey way he puts it just sounds like another religion to me...
Another dogma with no dogfood.