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Quantum Mechanics

Dr. Frederico Faggin

reductionism and logical positivism

 

 

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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.

 

 

Wikipedia:

Reductionism is … an intellectual and philosophical position that interprets a complex system as the sum of its parts… In a very simplified and sometimes contested form, reductionism is said to imply that a system is nothing but the sum of its parts.

Logical positivism [is a] theory of knowledge [which] asserts that only statements verifiable through direct observation or logical proof are meaningful in terms of conveying truth value, information or factual content.

Britannica.com:

Logical positivism [is] characterized by the view that scientific knowledge is the only kind of factual knowledge and that all traditional metaphysical doctrines are to be rejected as meaningless.

Irreducible, pg. 71:

A living cell is not a purely reductionist machine. Instead, it is a quantum-classical dynamical system, closer to the quantum reality than to the classical one.

Editor’s note:

Dr. Faggin explains how quantum systems are more than the sum of their parts, and why reductionism distorts and fails to describe.

What we find, repeatedly, in so-called scientific writings -- purporting to offer guidance concerning the underlying nature of things -- is largely untested, unverified materialist assumption, dogma, and metaparadigm. Little more than propaganda to support the notion that organic life is merely a classical machine.  

Scientism ignores, or is ignorant of, the quantum bases of living things, which cannot be reduced to a sum of its parts.

 

 

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."