Federico Faggin is one of the greatest luminaries of high technology alive today. A physicist by education, he is the inventor of the microprocessor and the MOS silicon gate technology, both of which underlie the modern world’s entire information technology. With the knowledge and experience of a lifetime in cutting-edge fields, Federico now turns his attention to consciousness and the nature of reality, sharing with us his profound insights on the classical and quantum worlds, artificial intelligence, life and the human mind. In “Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature” Federico’s new book, discussed on Sounds of Sand, he elaborates on an monistic model of reality, produced after years of careful thought and direct experience, according to which nature’s most fundamental level is that of consciousness as a quantum phenomenon, while the classical physical world consists merely of evocative symbols of a deeper reality.
Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature
Additional production support: Robert Neville
Topics:
- 00:00 – Introduction and Importance of Exploring Consciousness and Reality
- 04:23 – Federico’s Awakening Experience
- 15:29 – The Italian Verbs ‘Conoscere’ and ‘Sapere’
- 20:28 – Federico’s Theory: Unifying Science and Spirituality
- 30:08 – The Relationship Between Quantum Fields and Individuals
- 38:18 – Interiority and Exteriority of Consciousness
- 40:31 – AI
- 46:30 – More than Human Consciousness
- 51:54 – States of Consciousness
- 54:22 – Closing Thoughts
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