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Quantum Mechanics

Dr. Frederico Faggin

Semantic knowledge is not a property of a machine

 

 

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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.

 

 

Irreducible, pg. 48:

There is a clear distinction within us between the symbolic “knowledge” of the machine and our semantic knowledge.

The first is not knowledge but objective information that can be copied and shared; the second is a subjective and private experience that occurs in the intimacy of a conscious entity.

As such, semantic knowledge is a dynamic state of consciousness that contains within itself also the state of its own dependability, i.e., the sense of how much one can trust one’s own knowledge.

I know that I know; I know that I don’t know; I also know when I am not sure I know and when I pretend to know. Semantic knowledge is a property of a conscious entity; it is not a property of a machine.

 

 

 

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."