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Stephen Hawking has concluded in his book "The Grand Design": "So it seems that we are no more than biological machines and that free will is just an illusion." [1]

Machines don't have afterlife. So, enjoy every moment you live right now! :)

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/stephen-hawkings...

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Hawking makes a careful statement and employs the word "seems" not as a padding but intentionally. I take his statement at face value and still don't get to the confident deductions you make. For one "seems" is allowing room to account for something currently or forever invisible. And then how can you assert that machines don't have an afterlife?

I don't buy the we're smarter than we've ever been argument. It sounds very much like the religious people who feel certain of witnessing the end of the world.

> Einstein had a strong feeling for the presence of awe and wonder at the far horizon of the cosmos and saw evidence for the existence of a unifying, rational presence in the mathematical order of the cosmos. But since then the universe of theoretical physics has become random, complex, paradoxical, and barren of divine presence.

At least the atheist brigade remains constant. That's a comfort.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

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