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Quantum Mechanics

Dr. Frederico Faggin 

more than the sum of its parts

 

 

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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.

 

 

In classical or Newtonian systems, Dr. Faggin has stated, things are made of separable parts. Assembled parts can never be more than the sum of the parts (and often less due to entropy).

Quantum systems, however, are holistic, consist of interconnected, inseparable parts. And when quantum fields combine the result is more than the sum of the parts.

For example, when quantum fields of electrons combine with quantum fields of protons the result is a hydrogen atom, which is “something never seen before.” The new atom has characteristics superseding that of an electron and a proton, that is, it is more than the sum of its parts.

Faggin says it’s nonsense to say that consciousness somehow emerges from matter. How can you get more from less in a classical system? These explanations contradict the Newtonian undergirding. You can’t get more with the sum of parts in a classical system. And to speak of “epiphenomenon” here violates the materialists’ own doctrine of the impossibility of getting more from parts in classical union.

All higher level creativity comes from quantum fields, and for the same reasons; meaning, it can never derive from inert matter, something less.

Editor’s note: The Big Bang, if it happened as said, would be another Newtonian impossibility. It didn’t come from nothing but from invisible quantum fields – like that electron as wave of the sea.

 

 

 

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."