Recantation 2: Stephen Hawking
Posted on Apr 26 2006 | Tagged as: Literature, Science
I was going to write about Free Will.
I was going to quote Shakespeare’s Richard III: “I am determinèd to prove a villain…”, and question whether that meant ‘predetermined’, as in Richard was destined to be a usurping fratricide. (Does it? I don’t know.)
I was going to refer to Stephen Hawking’s essay Is Everything Determined? in which he answered his question affirmatively.
Then he changed his mind. Latest research suggest the present affects the past.
on 26 Apr 2006 at 6:44 pm 1 Matthew said …
Shhhhh
on 26 Apr 2006 at 8:22 pm 2 Christopher White said …
Whoops. Sorry.
on 27 Apr 2006 at 10:58 pm 3 Gary said …
Anyone can change their mind. That’s what it’s there for