Comments on Stephen Hawking.

Hawking's new  bitter comments on the nature of God, the role of religion, life after death, and his belief that the brain is just a computer raise questions that have long been answered.  For example, the idea that the mind is a computer was addressed by Kurt Godel long ago (along with several other philosophers who built on his work).  Godel maintained that his theorem showed that the mind could not be a computer because with in any formal system (large enough to contain Peano arithmetic), there existed statements which could not be proven within that system showing that the system could not be both complete and consistent.