Federico Faggin's Interview: Bridging Physics, Consciousness, and the Taste of Radiance Beyond Duality

 [22/10/24, 4:36:05 PM] John Tan: https://youtu.be/YRIrf7XzEnA?si=8n_tJtv9YD3jiLFx

 
[22/10/24, 4:36:39 PM] Yin Ling: 2 hours video lol
[22/10/24, 4:38:31 PM] John Tan: This YouTube interview on Federico faggin is really good.  He is trying so hard to connect his understanding of physics, computer design knowledge, quantum mechanics with his experience of consciousness.
[22/10/24, 4:41:48 PM] John Tan: You look at him and his expressions, so difficult to articulate the taste of consciousness radiance as qualia.

The critical point is the he really is able to "feel" the quantum state IS a description of the interiority of the world and he is trying so so hard to express that.
[22/10/24, 4:42:42 PM] Soh Wei Yu: Radiance as qualia is like anatta?
[22/10/24, 4:43:02 PM] John Tan: It is difficult to find one that really know physics that well and consciousness as a direct epxerience.
[22/10/24, 4:44:16 PM] John Tan: Part of it and in terms of intensity but not in terms of view.  But that is altogether a different matter.
[22/10/24, 4:44:42 PM] John Tan: Go watch.
[22/10/24, 4:44:50 PM] Soh Wei Yu: So his experience is like anatta but he dont too much about the view?
[22/10/24, 4:44:52 PM] Soh Wei Yu: Ok
[22/10/24, 4:45:01 PM] John Tan: In taste yes.


[22/10/24, 4:52:48 PM] John Tan: The other guy is Bernardo Kastrup is an analytical idealist, both r very Vedanta in view although I dun think they study them.  Both r scientists that r equiped with the required knowledge in physics and can relate to consciousness esp Federico.
[22/10/24, 4:52:59 PM] John Tan: In 2011, Faggin founded the Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation to support the scientific study of consciousness at US universities and research institutes. In 2015, the Faggin Foundation helped to establish a $1 million endowment for the Faggin Family Presidential Chair in the Physics of Information at UC Santa Cruz to promote the study of "fundamental questions at the interface of physics and related fields including mathematics, complex systems, biophysics, and cognitive science, with the unifying theme of information in physics."[4]

[22/10/24, 5:48:53 PM] John Tan: Later Federico actually described experience of anatta and total exertion but he doesn't want to put a term or name to it like non-dual, no-self....etc