Consciousness, Free Will, Meaning, and the Quantum
Roger Penrose, Federico Faggin, and Bernardo Kastrup in a fascinating and interdisciplinary conversation.
This is one of the best conversations I have seen so far about the conjectures regarding the relationship between consciousness, free will, cognition and quantum mechanics. While these speculations are very popular, they are almost always reduced to a few slogans that don’t mean much, and are usually dominated by hardliners of a strictly materialistic worldview. While those more open to a trans-material worldview usually fall into new age woo mostly confusing the general audience with misunderstandings that perpetuate myths that have nothing to do with reality.
Not so here. Roger Penrose (Physics Nobel laureate), Federico Faggin (inventor of the first commercial microprocessor), and Bernardo Kastrup (well-known philosopher and proponent of analytic idealism) take their time to reflect on the deeper meaning of their understanding of the ontology of consciousness, mind, free will, and quantum physics. While this conversation remains largely within a Westernized and scientific framework, …
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