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# Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature

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Federico Faggin is one of the greatest luminaries of high technology alive today. A physicist by education, he is the inventor of the microprocessor and the MOS silicon gate technology, both of which underlie the modern world's entire information technology. With the knowledge and experience of a lifetime in cutting-edge fields, Federico now turns his attention to consciousness and the nature of reality, sharing with us his profound insights on the classical and quantum worlds, artificial intelligence, life and the human mind. In this book, he elaborates on an idealist model of reality, produced after years of careful thought and direct experience, according to which nature's most fundamental level is that of consciousness as a quantum phenomenon, while the classical physical world consists merely of evocative symbols of a deeper reality.

Review: A comprehensive hypothesis about consciousness and the Universe - Wow! I have been a consciousness junky for most of my life but this book breaks new ground. Science needs measurement data and an idea that subsumes the data into a broad pattern of explanation. For a well-known example look at how the theory of continental drift now explains how Africa and South America look like they could have fit together as if later moved apart. Wegner wrote up his hypothesis a long time ago but the scientists dismissed it as nonsense because nobody could explain how continents with their mountains could move apart. Because of that key problem, the idea was considered balderdash. Today scientists now understand how continental drift is not just a harebrained scheme, but is well explained so the original idea is correct. Today we are in the same situation with consciousness. I saw a book (title and author forgotten) where 50 different consciousness hypotheses are mentioned. Many of them seem to me to be as crazy as shifting continents but this one combines enough pieces to strike me as the best one! The author is a physicist and expert in computers and combines quantum waves with their "collapse of the wave" and "Entanglement" into an idea that includes elements of what is known as spiritual dimensions. Science does not accept the spiritual as having any practical value within science but Federico Faggin sees quantum waves as having the necessary structure to make a logical case for what I call the soul, he makes up some safe names that avoid conflating a science-based theory with accumulated thousands of years of philosophical jargon. Just as Wegener was ahead of the scientific curve and then was saved with new observational data, I see some places today where utterly unexplainable observations suddenly take on a new interpretative meaning and thus serve to strengthen this crazy idea for consciousness. Note that new observations that speak to the future necessarily seem initially crazy. Today we have a data set that meets that characteristic and hence could be a source of information that adds predictive substance to this idea of quantum waves as a unifying spiritual scheme. In physics the "spooky action at a distance" as Einstein put it has no current explanation except in the view offered by Faggin. Also the 90 years of accumulated data by psychiatrists at the University of Virginias Division of Percetual Studies on memories of little children concerning details of a lived life before they were born has the same style as continents fitting together. Today we cannot understand how children could remember a life that clearly did not occur before they were born but with the light of "Quantum Information-based Panpsychism, the accumulated descriptions of a past life take on a new dimension of possibility. His book might be hard to read for those with a very limited understanding of quantum mechanics but he works hard to make it all as understandable as possible. Hard-nosed scientists will find this a difficult pill to swallow but its well worth the effort. I call this book extremely important as do many other reviewers here.
Review: an interesting perspective - federico’s a bit of a quack (no offense (sorry)) but I still bought this book to explore his perspective and it’s helped “open my mind” in a sense. I don’t ascribe to his philosophy, but I’m glad to have had the opportunity to learn a new perspective on, well, technically everything, and it has helped me think about everything more, which means this book did exactly as I hoped reading it would do for me.

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| Best Sellers Rank | #38,516 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #36 in Philosophy Metaphysics #58 in Medical Cognitive Psychology #136 in Cognitive Psychology (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 657 Reviews |

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A comprehensive hypothesis about consciousness and the Universe
*by T***R on March 25, 2025*

Wow! I have been a consciousness junky for most of my life but this book breaks new ground. Science needs measurement data and an idea that subsumes the data into a broad pattern of explanation. For a well-known example look at how the theory of continental drift now explains how Africa and South America look like they could have fit together as if later moved apart. Wegner wrote up his hypothesis a long time ago but the scientists dismissed it as nonsense because nobody could explain how continents with their mountains could move apart. Because of that key problem, the idea was considered balderdash. Today scientists now understand how continental drift is not just a harebrained scheme, but is well explained so the original idea is correct. Today we are in the same situation with consciousness. I saw a book (title and author forgotten) where 50 different consciousness hypotheses are mentioned. Many of them seem to me to be as crazy as shifting continents but this one combines enough pieces to strike me as the best one! The author is a physicist and expert in computers and combines quantum waves with their "collapse of the wave" and "Entanglement" into an idea that includes elements of what is known as spiritual dimensions. Science does not accept the spiritual as having any practical value within science but Federico Faggin sees quantum waves as having the necessary structure to make a logical case for what I call the soul, he makes up some safe names that avoid conflating a science-based theory with accumulated thousands of years of philosophical jargon. Just as Wegener was ahead of the scientific curve and then was saved with new observational data, I see some places today where utterly unexplainable observations suddenly take on a new interpretative meaning and thus serve to strengthen this crazy idea for consciousness. Note that new observations that speak to the future necessarily seem initially crazy. Today we have a data set that meets that characteristic and hence could be a source of information that adds predictive substance to this idea of quantum waves as a unifying spiritual scheme. In physics the "spooky action at a distance" as Einstein put it has no current explanation except in the view offered by Faggin. Also the 90 years of accumulated data by psychiatrists at the University of Virginias Division of Percetual Studies on memories of little children concerning details of a lived life before they were born has the same style as continents fitting together. Today we cannot understand how children could remember a life that clearly did not occur before they were born but with the light of "Quantum Information-based Panpsychism, the accumulated descriptions of a past life take on a new dimension of possibility. His book might be hard to read for those with a very limited understanding of quantum mechanics but he works hard to make it all as understandable as possible. Hard-nosed scientists will find this a difficult pill to swallow but its well worth the effort. I call this book extremely important as do many other reviewers here.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ an interesting perspective
*by S***N on May 14, 2026*

federico’s a bit of a quack (no offense (sorry)) but I still bought this book to explore his perspective and it’s helped “open my mind” in a sense. I don’t ascribe to his philosophy, but I’m glad to have had the opportunity to learn a new perspective on, well, technically everything, and it has helped me think about everything more, which means this book did exactly as I hoped reading it would do for me.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ While not yet a Theory of Everything, it is pointing to and closer than anything previously offered.
*by L***A on August 12, 2024*

I have been interested in what is 'really going on in the universe' since having a series of anomalous experiences in mid-life. This drew me to quantum physics, despite knowing that my lack of a deep mathematical background would limit such explorations. Fortunately, there are a few people, like the quantum physicist and designer of the Intel microprocessor Federico Faggin, who, because of their deep understanding of the meaning behind quantum physics and quantum information, are capable of transmitting this understanding fairly well with words. Meaning means 'to bear upon' and in his book Irreducible, he explains how Quantum Information bears upon Quantum Physics which bears upon our everyday physical world that includes both classic and quantum physics realities. I have a copy of the film made by the polymath Mae Wan Ho that demonstrates the non-locality of quantum coherent resonance in the fruit fly embryo under ten power magnification with polarized light. The first time I saw it was a magical experience involving an embodied knowing of seeing something profound. There is both a feed-forward and feedback relationship in Faggin's understanding of reality that involves resonance and non-locality through meaning. It is consistent with David Bohm's understanding of the interconnected universe in his description of Explicate (physical), Implicate (quantum) and super-implicate (informational) layers of reality. I recommend this book to those who are losing faith in a purely mechanistic understanding of life and the inanimate world. Also recommend it for those, who like Faggin, have had otherwise inexplicable anomalous experiences, because here is a book that will help you understand how and why what happened to you that makes sense. If however, you are committed to scientific materialism because you have never experienced anything intellectually nor experientially that shook your faith in it, don't bother because the cognitive dissonance will probably overwhelm you.

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