Scientists Tend To Risk Theories They Admire

If There Really Is A Complete Unified Theory That Governs Everything, It Presumably Also Determines Your Actions. But It Does So In A Way That Is Impossible To Calculate For An Organism That Is As Complicated As A Human Being. The Reason We Say That Humans Have Free Will Is Because We Can't Predict What They Will Do.

The Downside Of My Celebrity Is That I Cannot Go Anywhere In The World Without Being Recognized. It Is Not Enough For Me To Wear Dark Sunglasses And A Wig. The Wheelchair Gives Me Away.

A Theory Is A Good Theory If It Satisfies Two Requirements: It Must Accurately Describe A Large Class Of Observations On The Basis Of A Model That Contains Only A Few Arbitrary Elements, And It Must Make Definite Predictions About The Results Of Future Observations.

One Could Say: "the Boundary Condition Of The Universe Is That It Has No Boundary." The Universe Would Be Completely Self-contained And Not Affected By Anything Outside Itself. It Would Neither Be Created Nor Destroyed. It Would Just Be.

The Development Of Full Artificial Intelligence Could Spell The End Of The Human Race.