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Quantum Mechanics

Dr. Frederico Faggin

Heisenberg: “Physics is not a representation of reality but our way of thinking about it.”

 

 

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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.

 

 

Heisenberg: “Physics is not a representation of reality but our way of thinking about it.”

Irreducible, pg. 64:

The map is not the territory, the menu is not the meal. Why should this need to be stated? Dr. Faggin says that there’s a “forgetfulness” related to this slip in logic. Physicists create theories and then take them too seriously as if these were the last word on the subject and address everything that could be said.

In this desire to say too much, there is a “denial of those phenomena that the theory cannot explain.”

An example would be the comparing of the human body to a classical machine. While there is a very small correspondence, the tendency is to ignore huge areas in which the body is nothing like a machine.

This kind of selective viewing leads to dogmatism, turf-defending, and closed-end belief systems, which is not science.

 

 

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."