S2E24 - The Inventor of the Microprocessor Questions Reality | Talk Tracks

This week’s guest, Federico Faggin, helped invent the microprocessor - the technology that powers the modern world. By every measure, he had achieved success. And yet he felt something was missing.

After a spontaneous and profound experience of consciousness, Federico began questioning everything he thought he knew about the nature of reality. What followed was a decades-long investigation into one of the biggest mysteries in science: not how the brain creates consciousness, but whether consciousness comes first.

In this episode, Federico shares his theory that we are not our bodies, but fields of consciousness ha...