…unquestionable, but when you think about it, it turns out to be really flaky and just a kind of illusion. What does Dr. Stephen Hawking say to you when you say something like that? You cannot prove the Big Bang or you can't justify. What do they say?…

…that? You cannot prove the Big Bang or you can't justify. What do they say? Well, I haven't actually personally discussed it with Hawking, but I have talked about it to various cosmologists. I assume all you guys hang out together. Well, no, I do hang…

…know who is working on this, who's a big shot mainstream physicist, is Bernard Carr. who's worked on black holes with Stephen Hawking and so on. He knows about these things. He's not just speculating like I might. But he wonders whether in physics,…

…way, and the assumption is they're really constant and they were all started off in the right way. Both Paul Davis and also Stephen Hawking in his book, The Brief History of Time, end up with a kind of Neo-Deism, it seems to me. If not God, then…

…to meditate on that. Nobody can be sure of anything, but no, I find, I mean, I have enormous respect for Stephen Hawking, but I think his He doesn't know the difference between a model and the real thing. That's an occupational disease of theoretical…

…a century states that the essence of consciousness can be reduced to the physical components of the brain. As physicist Stephen Hawking states, I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. it will cease to run…

…does would be between you and Smolin, and then we get to the bottom of that. But the thing is that Stephen Hawking did the same thing. Once you've got a theory of everything about fundamental physics, then the whole of chemistry, biology and research…

…everything else is mechanistic and materialist and stuff except for them people like them um I think that's one reason why Stephen Hawking became so iconic for people who are not scientists and indeed for scientists, because he was the closest you can get…

…the... alive and well. I mean its latest greatest exponent in the best seller list of the last few months is Stephen Hawking who as a perfect exponent really of that platonic view of the eternal intellect, the eternal mathematical mind which somehow is…

…mind of God in some sense is there before and prior to matter or bodies. And as one of our British journals put it, Stephen Hawking is the closest thing we have to a disembodied mind. And it's a perfect, you see, in a sense there's a perfect, I think…