Federico Faggin on Idealism, Quantum Mechanics, Free Will, and Identity

Federico Faggin is an engineer and physicist who invented the world's first commercial micro processor, the Intel 4004. He is also the founder of the Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation which is dedicated to the scientific study of consciousness. Faggin Foundation: http://www.fagginfoundation.org/ Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Mu_Podcast Donations: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/lucasperry Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2adrDGVAqJKQcrjn5bbD0c?si=2c16526d4171446e ApplePodcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/federico-faggin-on-idealism-quantum-mechanics-free/id1640125881?i=1000622542319 Twitter: https://twitter.com/LucasFMPerry Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:40 Federico’s awakening experience 12:24 Consciousness, free will, and identity 17:43 Truth and freedom from suffering 21:21 “The one” that seeks to know itself 25:49 How “the one” becomes the many 28:07 “The one” and classic/quantum physics 41:07 Fundamental entities with free will, identity, and consciousness 45:25 Consciousness needs classical memory to store experience 47:04 Was the Big Bang a free will choice 57:02 The reality of the irreducible 1:01:37 Semantic space 1:05:37 Methods of inquiring into symbolic and semantic space 1:12:14 Will everything eventually converge? 1:15:54 Taking semantic reality seriously 1:22:10 Near death experiences 1:24:29 Taking experience seriously 1:30:26 Quantum information as a representation of inner experience 1:34:01 What do we do given this understanding? 1:36:35 We are not machines 1:43:11 Negating the reality of the soul 1:47:05 Meaninglessness and dynamic truth 1:52:26 Goodbyes