André Duqum
Today we are joined by top physicist and inventor of the microprocessor & touch screen, Federico Faggin, for an intriguing conversation into the nature of reality. Federico once had a materialistic scientific perspective on consciousness and reality until one day a spontaneous spiritual awakening changed his perspective forever.
In this episode he shares that very experience and how it has shaped his current view on reality. With this deeper knowing, he spent decades researching reality, today he shares his findings. He reveals why computers can never be conscious, who we are our essence, what carries on after death, and our unbreakable connection to something larger than ourselves.
He also discusses the very real force of love that underlies all things, the secret to spiritual growth, and why humans can never be replaced by artificial intelligence.
André’s Book Recommendations: https://www.knowthyselfpodcast.com/book-list
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0:00 Intro
2:55 His Spontaneous Spiritual Awakening
15:03 Defining Consciousness: Classical vs Quantum View
23:00 Can computers be Conscious?
28:20 How Truth Transcends Theory
33:24 Idealism vs Monad Theory
35:46 Our Deepest Desire: To Know Ourselves
38:19 Seity vs Soul
43:41 Individuality & What Carries Over After Death
46:46 We Are All Part of One Whole
53:01 How Emotion & Meaning Impacts Reality
1:01:15 Suffering as a Catalyst for Growth
1:07:07 Taking Responsibility for Our Lives & Spiritual Growth
1:13:27 The Very Real Force of Love
1:20:00 Where Physics & Spirituality Meet
1:25:11 Distinguishing Free Will & Unconscious Habits
1:32:23 Reincarnation & NDEs Explained
1:35:04 How Much We Currently Understand about Reality
1:40:43 Shifting From the Mind to the Heart
1:42:40 Facing the Future of Artificial Intelligence
1:47:53 Collective Consciousness & Evil vs Good
1:53:13 Competition vs Collaboration
1:57:11 Are Aliens Real?
1:59:43 Conclusion
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Federico Faggin is a physicist, inventor, and entrepreneur. Born, raised, and educated in Italy, he immigrated to the US in 1968. He is credited with designing the world’s first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004 in 1971, and he went on to invent dozens of other integrated circuits. Before that, in 1968 while working at Fairchild Semiconductor, he created a technology that made possible dynamic memories, non-volatile memories, image sensors, and the microprocessor. Faggin started several successful high-tech companies (Zilog, Cygnet Technologies, and Synaptics) that introduced significant products and technologies, including the touchpad and touchscreen that revolutionized the way we communicate with our personal devices. Among the honors Faggin has received are the 2009 National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Obama and the 2014 Enrico Fermi Prize. Through the Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation, Faggin now supports research programs at US universities and research institutes to advance the understanding of consciousness through theoretical and experimental research.
Newest Book “Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature”: https://a.co/d/bjZ56gH
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Thank you so much!
It echoes for me of:
J Krishnamurti
The Observer and the Observed are One..
NewCultureofPeace&Love…Now!
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So much gratitude and love to you both for this fundamentally important conversation.
I had a very similar experience as Frederrico many years ago during my grade 10 math class. As my teacher taught the days lesson, I found myself drifting off into my own imagination, and suddenly my body burst into a euphoria of love and amazement. The feeling of immense pleasure overcame my entirety and I was engulfed in so much joy and awe of what I was experiencing. At the same time, my consciousness was able to think, feel and express itself. I immediately thought, “ I hope my teacher doesn’t ask me a question because I have no idea what he’s even talking about”. My focus was completely identified with this profound experience I was having. I also remember that all I could do was sit and smile, for the feeling was something I had not ever felt before. I could have stayed in that state for the rest of eternity. The love was completely unconditional and encompassing, it embraced all of me all at once and I just sat there basking in this incredible moment.
I vaguely recall seeing a light in my upper right awareness, which I believe now to be the light of who we really are, and the beautiful feeling accompanied with this light is our true state; love and light.
Unfortunately, my experience lasted only 30 seconds or so as I believe my fear of other classmates looking at me smiling to myself and my teacher possibly proposing a question to me quickly altered my state and brought me back to my current reality.
For many years after, I was completely shocked and confused as to what happened to me that one day in math class and I tried not knowing how, to get back to that state of unconditional love, absolute acceptance and unbelievable pleasure without success.
After now having listened to Frederrico on a few podcasts, I believe we have had a very similar experience and am so grateful to finally be able to have some clarity and understanding on the most transformative experience of my life. 30 years later, I can still remember the absolute immensity I felt and I will be forever grateful.
Thank you to you both for an absolutely profound conversation!
Much love ❤️ 🙏🏻❤️
HUMANITY . THE IDENTITY OF GOD , CREATES QUANTUM MAGNATING FIELD OF CONSCIOUSNESS . I'VE MANIFESTED HUMANITY, THE RAREST OF THE RARE REALIZATIONS , UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF SRIRAMAKRISHNA PARAMHANSA AND SWAMI VIVEKANANDA .
THIS IS THE BEST EPISODE. To. Date.
THE BEST. Bar none.
2:00:49 THAT WAS SO RAD!!! That THAT’S what he had to add! Wow!!! I LOVE YOU BOTH!!!!
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THIS is absolutely, THE BEST EPISODE AND CONVERSATION TO DATE, Andre! THE. BEST.
Wow.
Wow. Wow. Wow.
THANK YOU!!! 🙏🏻
This conversation changed me, 100%. 💯
Bless you both. Dang, Andre. You are fu€£ing. GOOD!!! You are THE BEST. Wow.
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I found it so interesting how André's shoulders moved after Faggin was stating the body has no free will. Kind of disagreeing. 🙂 1:29:01
Thank you Andre! This channel and your delivery style (it is so refreshing to watch a podcast where the host doesnt derail the expert with their autobiography/opinions) is one of the most important of our time. Rich blessings to you brother. 🙏💛
THERE IS NO DEAD MATTER IN THE UNIVERSE EVERYTHING IS IN TRANSITION!!! YOUR EYES CANNOT SEE YOUR FUTURE OR YOUR PAST BUT YOU CAN CLOSE YOUR EYES AND CLEARLY SEE YOUR PAST AND WITH A LITTLE IMAGINATION PROBABLY YOUR FUTURE WHICH MEANS YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS DOES NOT NEED YOUR BODY TO EXIST!!!
THE DAY SCIENTISTS START TO STUDY NON-PHYSICAL PHENOMENON THEY WILL MAKE MORE PROGRESS IN ONE DECADE THAN ALL THE OTHER CENTURIES OF ITS EXISTENCE AND WE ARE CURRENTLY DOING THAT THANK YOU TESLA FOR THE HEADS UP!!!
WE ARE ABOUT TO SEE SOME AMAZING THINGS THIS IS THE MOST EXCITING TIME TO BE ALIVE ANYWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE WE ARE CURRENTLY ABOUT TO MAKE THE LARGEST LEAP IN CONSCIOUSNESS THAT THIS PLANET HAS EVER SEEN POSSIBLY GALAXY MAYBE EVEN UNIVERSE HAS EVER SEEN!!! I DIGRESS BUT 100% SURE LARGEST SLEEPING CONSCIOUSNESS THIS PLANET HAS SEEN GOING DOWN RIGHT NOW WE HAVE CROSSED A THRESHOLD GET READY THIS SHOULD BE EXCITING!!!
I experience thrills every day and am excruciatingly happy, full of extreme joy when I do it is an overflowing of love in the heart. Love Ann To understand this we must see this interview multiple times!! 😊The whole thing was impactful and must be seen many times so that we understand the whole of it with our hearts.
That is what I did, not reading many books or going through life without academic education that squeezes us into a pattern that isn't fact. Now being ready and open, having loved all peoples not being a member of any ism, and now having thrown put my TV several years ago having no radio or newspapers. I do not miss them I just live my life and am happy in nature and with nature. Love Ann I am a member of What is Consciousness in Oslo 160 km away but go to meetings. Fascinating all this thank you you clearly explained it together. 😊
The Christianity calls his experience it's called blessing in the Holy Spirit
It's a great Aha moment. It really helps you change your way of thinking.
For a long time I lost my connection with God, but now we are intimately connected.
They are criminals, inhuman, and sexual perverts. They will pay for their actions.
Love is not a phrase, it is a series of actions that demonstrate it
When someone tells me "I love you," I think they're a manipulative fraud.
Смелый человек. С высоты своего положения рассказывает о таких вещах. Ведь могут сказать,что привиделось или сумасшедший
Телепортация существует. Вернее человек обладает такими энергиями или свойствами что может телепортировать себя. О своем опыте говорю. Может ещё кто нибудь когда нибудь подтвердит мои слова
Anything that begins with an advert its whats wrong with the world
Cant watch.
I loved the first part when he explained his realization of knowing. I recognized how we tend to take the insights we receive from the field and turn them over in our minds and then believe what our minds construe from the original insight. My pursuit is to stop pursuing and to stay open as much as possible to the present moment, tuned into the seemingly unlimited field of possibility: to flow like water.
Perhaps when my heart has control over my ego, rather than the converse, I wouldn't get lost in illusion from my thinking.
It's a theory.😊
I enjoyed hearing his perspective very much. Thank you!❤
Life itself can be understood as consciousness deeply intertwined with the universe, not as a detached witness but as an active participant in shaping reality. This view begins with recognising that consciousness and the universe form a dynamic feedback loop, where life experiences the cosmos through sensory perception, making reality a lived, evolving phenomenon rather than a fixed external backdrop.
At the heart of this interaction lies sensory experience. The interface through which human and biological consciousness perceives and interprets the universe. Our senses; sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell provide raw, subjective data that consciousness uses to navigate and make sense of its environment. These sensory references are both personal and universal, enabling a shared yet uniquely experienced reality.
Quantum mechanics, particularly the Copenhagen interpretation, deepens our understanding by showing that observation is not passive. Instead, the act of observation collapses the quantum wave of possibilities into a definite reality. Extending this principle metaphorically, each act of conscious perception selects and defines the experienced world, making reality fundamentally observer-dependent.
However, something rarely recognised is that Copenhagen is “Observer” biased and almost assuming a’priori the observer “Initiates” measurement with a consciousness and a question in mind and which also preassumes to invoke the “consciousness itself” wholly into that observer alone? But the universe does not actually ‘work that way around’. This relationship is clearly reciprocal and more nuanced. Reality itself "looks back" and shapes the observer’s perception, cognition, and very being. The observer and the observed co-create each other continuously, in an inseparable dance where consciousness collapses reality while reality simultaneously defines consciousness.
As biology I am biased to think in terms of my senses so even the word “observation” holds that biological bias of vision or sight. Questions like “Is a lump of coal or even an entire planet conscious?” Are not foolish questions at all. Perhaps the fundamental invariants of nature, gravity, electromagnetism and which have acted over time to “enable the conditions” for greater complexity to manifest are also simply really representing “interactions” and are thus just other “ways” of observers observing.
Life forms are unique occupiers of their own personal nodes in this matrix (literally Relativistic Physics essentially means we each, as individuals, occupy a space and a time that is unique to us), processing sensory input to construct meaning, evolve, and participate in the universe’s unfolding. Multiplicity arises from diverse conscious perspectives, each with unique sensory frameworks creating overlapping, yet fundamentally connected, realities.
As consciousness experiences and shapes reality, it simultaneously constructs and reconstructs identity.
Are they merging or are they simply the same thing?
Jesus said "As a man thinketh, so is he"
That says so very much, about what we are.
Why do you think the way you do?
Who do you think you are?
You can't do anything, with thinking about it first.
All animals work within their separate fields of consciousness. And so do all people on a higher level.
Look into the eyes of your pet. They have qualia.
They have different focus given to them. For their purposes.
As do we. Our's are more complex because of imaginations potential..
We have more creativity.
And a deeper meaning in contiousness. But animals as well as us have a knowing of themselves.
Fractals of the totality of truth, with a dream state of potentials, just out of our grasp, as it becomes awareness for us of the state that we find our selves in.
you can be a soul AND a machine at the same time. a machine follows rules just like consciousness does. we are just a machine that does more stuff.
"truth transcends proof." the maxim of every Jim Jones and David Koresh.
I also have a deep desire to know, but to date, have had no experience like Faggin. I wish I would have something that would give me this knowing of who I really am, because sometimes life makes no sense and seems cruel and pointless.
I had a similar sensation without words several times, knowledge which came as just knowing without words, or source or intention, just pure sensational knowing.
He had a Near Death Experience and was one of those who didn't need to get near death to have it, as others also have experienced. I recommend watching the many YouTube accounts of Near Death Experience of the Oneness which needs to become the true religion.
Music is the language of the Cosmos- each one of us his own unique not in a never ending symphony of existence. ——-It's also important to realize that you don't go from seeking to knowing. You will never know, but this is by design-religion and science can only get you so far. If we are lucky we will remember about 2% of our eternal reality.
Plant medicine is left to connect to the universe using consciousness.
Federico Faggin and Donald Hoffman should write a book together.
No, I have a huntch that the body does have something to do with consciousness.
You so right Mr. Frederico Faggin the catholic religion wants you to do turn the other cheek while they continue to do they dark deeds one has to do something is expose it all it is not ones fault at all there are too many kids harmed 6 months old do not ask to be abused so this is an excuse to not do anything as it is they did to harm millions of children they continue as it has as the trauma too much to deal with just do put the blame on yourself it was not it was due to evil intention is evil and the innocent must not be harmed by evil who want one to accept their dogma embrace your dark side the suppressed side reveal which they feast on in the matrix energy once you know yourself it all and then if needs to be exposed reveal it all that is what they don't want once it all out in the open heals you as God within wants you to heal not destroy your body with the mind of negative thoughts power is expressing of revealing is true healing knowing yourself that you must expose all the dark have no fellowship with the spirits of darkness but expose them Ephesians 5.11 they don't want you to heal they also feast of the negative energy God wants you to find yourself love of yourself and question everything aa you are and enlighten others to your great wisdom true Yeshua was a warrior he turned over the tables in his father's house that was now unholy place of mammon the false teachings is to say all is ok it is not otherwise there would be no justice as they can do what they want why billions suffer you are warrior of the universe a gift to all us Frederico Faggin happiness is expressing your truth whatever that is all must be expressed even if others don't want to hear or agree all we can leant from those that they tried to stifle truth will set you free just like in the old days Vatican did not even want others to decipher the universe it was there way or the highway to their hell and they knew people scientists old days knew the truth like you are saying making people think out of the box namaste
namaste
I am Catholic