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Federico Faggin

№ W37L

Federico Faggin

Physicist & Inventor · Faggin Foundation

Silicon Valley, CAWebsite

Research Areas

IdealismPhysicsConsciousness

About

Physicist, engineer, and inventor who developed the first commercial microprocessor (Intel 4004). Now focuses on the nature of consciousness through the Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation.

Publications

  • Silicon: From the Invention of the Microprocessor to the New Science of Consciousness

Related Guides

Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness (HOT)

Rosenthal and Lau's framework proposing consciousness requires higher-order mental representations about our own mental states.

Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR)

Penrose and Hameroff's quantum theory proposing consciousness arises from gravitational self-collapse in neuronal microtubules.

Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC)

The search for the minimal neuronal mechanisms jointly sufficient for any one specific conscious percept.

Idealism in Philosophy of Mind

Bernardo Kastrup's analytical idealism and the philosophical tradition arguing consciousness is fundamental, not matter.

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