While Dr. Hawking looked outward, and kept our minds on the universe, I always hoped we could study his body and brain to understand how he was able to function intellectually without essentially any body to work with.
What force of life concentrated all of his energy into his brain while totally disengaging his body? If that could be discovered, we would know what life is, and how the physical brain and intellect work together.
Dr. Hawking was a brilliant man. In the end it was fitting that he should shuffle off this mortal coil on Pi Day, not to mention that today is the anniversary of Albert Einstein’s birthday.
Damn.
While Dr. Hawking looked outward, and kept our minds on the universe, I always hoped we could study his body and brain to understand how he was able to function intellectually without essentially any body to work with.
What force of life concentrated all of his energy into his brain while totally disengaging his body? If that could be discovered, we would know what life is, and how the physical brain and intellect work together.
“No, [Stephen] is not dead. He just went home.”
– Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones), “Men In Black”, 1997, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119654/quotes.
Some delightful tributes:
https://www.boredpanda.com/stephen-hawking-died-world-pays-tribute/
Dr. Hawking was a brilliant man. In the end it was fitting that he should shuffle off this mortal coil on Pi Day, not to mention that today is the anniversary of Albert Einstein’s birthday.
I thought he was going to live forever.
I think so too.
“The time I took Stephen Hawking to a cowboy bar”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/03/15/the-time-i-took-stephen-hawking-to-a-cowboy-bar/