Trem23, Excellent point. You should tell Hawking that.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <inmadison@...> wrote : In order to make the statement that mind is an emergence of physical matter/energy - one has to make the inference there is physical matter/energy - and this is an inference that can not be proven . . . thus, why the notion mind is an emergence of matter/energy is 'dogmatic'. Perhaps its a reasonable POV - but dogmatic none the less.