Via Sancti Romualdi 2025
Federico Faggin
Corpo, mente e spirito rivisti
Talking to Alessandro Barban former Prior of the Camaldolese Monks
in collaboration with Associazione Romagna-Camaldoli
Federico Faggin is an icon, a hero to all scientists and technology enthusiasts. Through his inventions, from the microprocessor to the touchscreen, and his pioneering studies of neural networks, he has helped shape the present we all know. But his research has continued and gone much further, overturning the ‘mechanistic’ paradigm whereby consciousness is an epiphenomenon of the brain, a by-product of matter. The divine in the universe is within us and creates through knowledge. Quantum events are intrinsic to the visible world, they cannot be copied or cloned: they are private. According to Faggin, consciousness and free will are intrinsic to the quantum micro-world, and dense matter is an epiphenomenon. Faggin will discuss these issues with Alessandro Barban, former Prior of the Camaldolese Monks.
