"Hawkings comment summed it up for me"
Then he is one of those "Epiphenomenalists."
I'd hate to have PROVE everything in my Universe.
Why can't I just experience the magic of it?
He would bore me to death.
>" if we can't test these ideas, poke them and demonstrate any cause and effect" ....
So, he thinks he's figured out HIS existence and what it means in the Grand Scheme of things?? I doubt he's even contemplated it.
How limited!