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Quantum Mechanics

Dr. Frederico Faggin 

characteristics of quantum fields mirror those of consciousness

 

 

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Editor's note:

Dr. Frederico Faggin is one of the heavyweight scientist-inventors of the 20th century. In 1971 he developed the first silicon chip, the microprocessor at the heart of all electronic devices today. He also produced the new touch-sceen technology.

Currently, he is writing, lecturing, and advocating what he feels to be an even more fundamental revolution in science - that consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all reality.

 

 

Several decades ago, Dr. Faggin had attempted to create a truly sentient computer. Eventually, he realized that this was not possible – because qualia cannot be reduced to electrical signals.

Or, as Roger Penrose put it, “Consciousness is not a computation,” can never be reduced to mathematical algorithm.

But Faggin noticed that the characteristics of quantum fields mirror those of consciousness. See his books for details.

However, one example: the “no cloning theorem.” A quantum field cannot be copied, just as a state of consciousness cannot be copied – if it could, we could reduce it to computer bits, like a Word document, and easily replicate.

But this is not, nor will it ever be, possible. We will never download minds and store them.

 

 

Editor's last word:

Also see youtube interviews of Dr. Faggin, for example, here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Q_W6H_nZk 

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5REKKkKZpY

wherein Dr. Faggin makes comments, such as, "The structure of matter is isomorphic [“equal form”] to the cognitive structure of consciousness, which can reflect itself [in matter]"; our "bodies reflect the accumulated learning of consciousness; matter is the ink with which consciousness writes its own self-knowing."