Stephen Hawking said, we have only one life, but Christof Koch argues that consciousness could be a fundamental property of any sufficiently complex thing

Last Updated on February 24, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

We found the statement of Stephen Hawking that we have only one life in a video about him. But how can he know, that we have only one life? Does he have a proof for this statement? No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking

Christof Koch argues that consciousness is could be a fundamental property of any sufficiently complex thing:

https://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/scientists/koch/

This concept, known as panpsychism, has transformed Koch’s life. “I’ve turned into a complete vegetarian,” he said:

https://www.geekwire.com/2019/dogs-conscious-computers-brain-scientist-christof-koch-takes-deep-questions/

“That is one of the implications [of the view] that consciousness is more widespread than we assume.”

But also Christof Koch has no proof for panpsychism. We do not know, what is true.

Another view is Agnosticism

Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism

but we do not have a proof either, that it is unknowable.

The answer of Jean-François Revel, French philosopher and father of Matthieu Ricard

is that statements like the mentioned here are not proofen or disproofen, and it is difficult to proof those or to disproof those. Therefore we do not know what is true.

But how can Jean-François Revel know that we all don t know this?

We know of individuals who say that they know it.