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Quantum Mechanics

Dr. Frederico Faggin 

Matter is a form of information transmitted among conscious spin-off entities of the One

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from https://besharamagazine.org/science-technology/consciousness-as-the-ground-of-being/

Jane: So this urge to know is not only at the level of the absolute reality; it appears in every individual conscious entity?

Federico: Yes, the fact that we have interiority is primary in our model. Consciousness and free will are foundational and exist from the beginning rather than emerging with the physical brain. In this model, it is the brain that emerges from the conscious fields as an informational-only structure. The meaning of the information exists in the conscious field which is what we really are. Matter is nothing more than the information that conscious entities use to communicate with each other to know themselves.

Richard: Obviously it is true that we communicate through matter. I know you through the way that you appear, through the words you speak and the things you do as a physical entity. But why not just have direct communication between our interiorities? Why go to all this bother of creating matter, which in a way puts up a barrier between us?

Federico: I asked myself the same question many years ago. Firstly, each of us has an inner experience that is private and inviolate, whereas symbols, like matter, are public and can be perceived by everybody. To maintain my identity – the uniqueness of my point of view – my experience cannot be identical to yours. If you could directly know my experience, and I yours, we would be the same entity.

And secondly, the need to convert my meaning into symbols to communicate with you, as well as my need to convert your symbols into your intended meaning, allows me to know both myself and you much better. So I see this universe as playing the role of a kind of virtual reality, allowing us to know ourselves better when our consciousness is embodied into living organisms.  The process is driven by the fact that this reality beyond space and time wants to know itself. And we have constructed this universe to better know ourselves by using a body that amplifies those traits we wish to explore and comprehend.

Jane: So what you’re saying, fundamentally, is that something that we might already know interiorly appears differently or more completely when we actually experience it played out in the physical universe?

Federico: That’s correct. But it’s important to add that this ‘playing out’ can never completely express who we are; there is always something that is left out because we are potentially infinite. We communicate with symbols, and the symbols are never sufficient to capture all that we are. They are limited. The evolution of the universe we witness is the other face, the symbolic aspect, of the endless search for meaning of all the conscious entities in existence.

Think about the love that we may feel for a person. Can we ever express that love all the way? No, we cannot. We may try to do it in poetry, in music, or in painting. Whatever way we try, we will always come up short. No symbolic expression will ever capture the totality of what we are feeling. Our feelings give us the sense of who we are. They tell us what we still have to know about ourselves, which is the unexpressed meaning we feel within; the urge that pushes us to know ourselves ever more. That urge manifests as curiosity, as courage, and as adventurousness, driving us toward the unknown.