experience is quantum

De Andere Krant #25, 1968, from Pierre Ponant’s private collection

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by FEDERICO FAGGIN

 

Federico Faggin is an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor, and tech visionary. He led the creation of the first commercial microprocessor in the eighties. Today, he explores consciousness as a fundamental force, blending quantum theory and panpsychism with physicist Giacomo Mauro d’Ariano.

 

“all living beings are different phenomena of a single universal substance; they draw from the same metaphysical root, and their difference is quantitative, not qualitative.”

— giordano bruno

I realize that these ideas may meet strong resistance from those who have embraced the materialistic and reductionistic view of reality. However, as Lord Byron said: “Opinions are meant to be changed, otherwise how can one get to the truth?”

Quantum physics has created a deep bewilderment among physicists indoctrinated in classical physics, to the point where most of them have…