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Sad that he's gone, but then, he wasn't supposed to live past even 26.
 
I just saw it on the news feed and popped in here to see if anyone else had seen it too.

I have to wonder if his parents tried Lorenzo's Oil in conjunction with medications and that's why he ended up living so long despite the ALS. I've seen with younger patients that altho it isn't remarkably efficient that it managed to extended their lives some and even reversed some of the debilitating effects like lack of speech and returned some movement after some months of daily use.


Of course they were loaded in dough so they likely used that to seek other alternatives and helped in new research, but it is a marvel for him to have outlasted the time frame they gave him. My Granpa did the same altho from other varied multiple illnesses/hert attacks until he managed to run into the first surgeon who gave him 5 years at the most maximum level, and he lived nearly 30 years beyond it.

I wonder if he ever met with the first guy who diagnosed later in life? I'd have been ecstatic to see the stubbornness in his finding good reason to keep at it.


I will say, on the point of those who think there is a hereafter, if you are right, then we'll all be seein him again in fine style and with metal music and wine and extra cheese to fill the hours while listening to him describe physical principles of nature, us gluttonous heathens. Not that it's evidence of anything, just an answer to a Pascal-esque 'what if' scenario.
 
lpetrich said:
Titled OP link: Stephen Hawking, modern cosmology's brightest star, dies aged 76 | Science | The Guardian
Some of his most outspoken comments offended the religious. In his 2010 book, Grand Design, he declared that God was not needed to set the universe going, and in an interview with the Guardian a year later, dismissed the comforts of religious belief

“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,” he said.

He spoke also of death, an eventuality that sat on a more distant horizon than doctors thought. “I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first,” he said.
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Kryten would disagree. :D

He was a character in the SF TV series "Red Dwarf" who believed in "silicon heaven": "The iron will lie down with the lamp".
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I found the comment about computers interesting.
I take it he didn't hold much hope for ghost-in-the-machine artificial intelligence.
Has anyone here seen the Netflix series Altered Carbon? Consciousness downloaded onto memory chips and backups uploaded into cloned 'skins' (bodies).
 
Lion IRC said:
lpetrich said:
Titled OP link: Stephen Hawking, modern cosmology's brightest star, dies aged 76 | Science | The Guardian
Some of his most outspoken comments offended the religious. In his 2010 book, Grand Design, he declared that God was not needed to set the universe going, and in an interview with the Guardian a year later, dismissed the comforts of religious belief

“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,” he said.

He spoke also of death, an eventuality that sat on a more distant horizon than doctors thought. “I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first,” he said.
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Kryten would disagree. :D

He was a character in the SF TV series "Red Dwarf" who believed in "silicon heaven": "The iron will lie down with the lamp".
Click to expand...

I found the comment about computers interesting.
I take it he didn't hold much hope for ghost-in-the-machine artificial intelligence.
Has anyone here seen the Netflix series Altered Carbon? Consciousness downloaded onto memory chips and backups uploaded into cloned 'skins' (bodies).
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That's pretty much speculative fantasy. While some scientists get into it, others find it silly.
 
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