New Thinking • Feb 27, 2025 Federico Faggin created the self-aligned MOS silicon-gate technology, which made possible memory chips, CCD image sensors, and the microprocessor. He designed the Intel 4004, 8008, and 8080 microprocessors, as well as the Zilog Z80 and Z8 processors. In 2010, he received the 2009 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honor the United States confers for achievements related to technological progress. He is author of Silicon: From the Invention of the Microprocessor to the New Science of Consciousness, and also Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature. His website is http://www.fagginfoundation.org/ This open-ended conversation focuses on the relationship between free will, consciousness, and the quantum field. Faggin argues that many of our current social problems result from society’s false view of reality, based on an outdated understanding of physics. 00:00 Introduction 05:20 Free will 09:36 The field of electrons is conscious 16:07 We are observer, observed, and agent 24:37 One 31:24 Everything is entangled with everything 34:07 Ethical implications 40:16 The problem of scientism 45:35 Do you work for all, or for yourself? 47:14 Conclusion New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on February 5, 2025)