This is like revisiting physics class... Which I like but totally suck at. From the look of the first chapter, it seems as if hawking is not very impressed with Aristotle. But yet, one gets the feeling that hawking is trying to blend philosophy with science. I kinda liked the part where he questioned if we truly have free will as perpetually all things on earth follow a set of laws. He quoted an example where during awake brain surgery, we can be made to do certain things by simply stimulating different parts of the brain.
Following that line of reasoning, could it be that there exists a set of laws governing our brain, which made us do the things we do?
Not sure if that's exactly what he meant though. The next chapter looks equally interesting and philosophical- what is reality?
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