"we adopt a view that we call model - dependent realism" I have been writing for years that nature is definitional; http://science1.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/tr

"we adopt a view that we call model - dependent realism" I have been writing for years that nature is definitional; http://science1.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/true-knowledge/ http://science1.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/true-knowledge/ I am glad to read that Hawking realizes this now. But this is not enough. He needs to give up his materialism; and reject the materialist physics. But what this quote reveals is that; study of nature is not a "physical" process; study of nature is not a monopoly of physicists; anyone who is curious can study nature without professional doctrines developed by physicists. All you have to do is to develop your own model. I welcome Hawking's statement.