Pr. Hawking is going to announce, as I read in my newspaper, the end of philosophy as science in his new book "The Grand Design". But matter and its secrets are not really of a great importance in philosophy-at least for us traditional or a bit old fashioned thinkers. Matter is a corollary of the true substance and its study can provide interesting but not definitive solutions on the old question: why am I here?

--I am very curious to see why my post in metaphysics has been transfered to Odds and Ends.

--It looks like this is not very polically correct to move posts like this.

--But I trust the administration of this site because they have tolerated much more "uncomprhensible" posts of mine than this one.

--Let's see if they finally move it again in its natural place.

--That does not mean that I am going to folllow any 'line".