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

In this series we'll dive deeper into the revelations, challenges, and unexpected truths from the telepathy tapes.

“The goal is to explore all the threads that we've together are understanding of reality.”

Science, spirituality, and yes, even unexplained things like side abilities. If you haven't yet listened to the telepathy tapes, I encourage you to start there. It lays the foundation for everything we'll be exploring in this journey. I'll feature conversations with groundbreaking researchers, thinkers, non-speakers, and experiences who illuminate extraordinary connections that may defy explanation today but

won't for long.

Today's incredible guest helped build the foundation of the modern digital world.

Federico Pagin is a physicist and inventor who developed the first micro-processer, technology that powers nearly every device we use today. By all measures he had everything he'd ever wanted, success, recognition, wealth, achievement, but he still felt like something was missing from his life. After powerful and unexpected experience, Federico began to question everything he thought

he knew, with the benefit of an extremely technical, scientific mind. And this ultimately led him down a quest to understand consciousness, and what he shares in his business episode is pretty riveting. Beyond his incredible theory around reality and what it is, he had an enriching encounter with telepathy, non-speaking students, and Italy

before the slupped the tapes ever came out.

“So Federico that was my attempt at introducing you, how would you introduce yourself?”

I'm Federico Pagin, I am a physicist, I'm an inventor, I'm an entrepreneur, and I'm now a student of consciousness, free will and the nature of reality. I was born and raised in Italy, so I was raised in the Catholic religion and Catholic religion. When your body dies, you know, there's something else that survives you. So I grew up with that ethics and that kind of ideas, and then I started physics and

the little by little I kind of moved away from any religious beliefs and I believed that I was the body and my body would die, there would be the end of it. So I kind of was resigned that in 68, I developed the silicon gate, MOS silicon gate technology

that for the first time allowed to make dynamic memories, microprocessor, in other words,

was the basic technology to make all the pieces that you would need to make a computer in a little chip of silicon. One process for all of these different parts didn't exist before, so it was five times faster, it had a much lower leakage, 500 times less leakage, and you could put twice as many transistors, then I joined Intel and I designed the first microprocessor, which was a, you

know, a required a couple of other inventions of mine to in order to do it, but there was this history. So I know you led the design and developed the first microprocessor, which changed computing technology forever, and I'm curious when your life's work really pivoted, right, from being a very materialist science tech-driven perspective, to one that was more focused on consciousness.

It was until when I was in my mid-40s that realized that I had achieved everything that should make me happy, but I wasn't that time I was also studying neuroscience, was that in biology, because I was working in neural networks, and I was interested in the anyhow biological neural networks work, and then I asked myself the question, but what about consciousness? I mean, the books of neuroscience, they don't talk about consciousness,

“but I know because I'm conscious, so where's consciousness coming from?”

Nobody talks about that and I asked some of the experts in neuroscience, and oh, consciousness though, don't worry about it. You know, it's something that happens in the brain, so you know, I'll figure it out. We don't know what it is yet, but we'll figure it out. Well, neuroscience is not figuring it out yet, so this was more than 40 years ago, when I raised that question, in the meantime, I realized that not being happy despite having

reached everything that should, and maybe happy, and I realized that I did not understand how the war works, because you know, consciousness seemed to be so fundamental, and nobody talks about it in science, so I really wanted to understand, and it was in this climate of wanting or really desiring to know that I had an extraordinary experience of consciousness. So, can you tell us about the transformative experience that you had that changed your perspective

on consciousness? So, after years of trying to understand what's going on in my life, one night was all vacation at Tahoe, skiing over the holidays, and one night, I woke up at the around midnight, I was thirsty, got a glass of water went back to bed, and as I was trying to

it was making noise, but it wasn't making noise, but it was so physical, physical energy.

“It was love, love that I've never felt before in my life, it was like 10,000 times a hundred”

thousand times the love that I've ever felt, and it was directed out of me and my consciousness was in this energy, so I was love coming out of me, you know, what's going on here? What was going on in your life? I mean, were you on a second, tell like, or were you, were you just meditating or was it just really random? No, no, no, no, no, this was a spontaneous awakening that told me that I'm not what I thought I was. Wow. So, then this energy, you know,

that almost like a blow, blows away, becomes kind of expands, and it's not this white light circulating that is love is everywhere, and my consciousness is in this energy, so now I'm looking at myself in this energy, of course, I'm not the body, I'm this energy, because my consciousness is both in my body and also in this energy. Now this energy also is love mixed with

joy and peace, and peace, I've never felt in my life before. I was always thinking about what I was

“going to do, I was never where I was, and peace was, wow, I'm that, that's what I am that thing,”

and then a thought comes, wow, but this is the energy of which everything is made, so I was recognizing this energy that feels like love, peace, and joy was actually this stuff, the substance, whatever you want to call it, or which the entire universe is made. Oh, I love that. So love and peace enjoy, I felt like the fabric of the universe in that moment. Right. It's interesting, because we've heard that from a lot of near-death experiences as well

when they touch into whatever this realm in between places seems to be, or at least the conscious ness realm between spaces. So can you imagine that something like that changed my life, because all of a sudden I realized that I wasn't separate from the rest of the world. My idea of myself was I was a body, and when the body dies, that is nothing left to me. Now this experience is telling me that I'm not the body, so clearly when I die,

I'm going to become what I just experienced. So, you know, it was a sense of, first of all,

having found finally a sense of who I am, I am that, right? A lot of my anxiety, and the fact that I wasn't happy about myself, that was coming from non-knowing what I am, what I'm here to do, what's going on, why I'm not happy about my life. And so on, all of that changed, and I started studying consciousness, and a word for about 20 years, very deeply about trying to understand what is it, you know, how I'm physics as a scientist, how can you explain it,

“I realized after 20 years of work that you cannot explain consciousness, as you have to start with”

consciousness. Conscious is something fundamental. If you don't start there, and you think the conscious can emerge from matter, which is not conscious, or from some other thing that is not conscious, you don't get there from here, right? So, it's impossible. You have to start with consciousness, and I leave everything that I'm doing, I'm going to dedicate myself to studying this thing, and seeing how physics and spirituality emerge, because this was a spiritual experience,

a spiritual experience is a experience where you feel the connection with the totality of what exists with one, with everything, so that experience had such a force in it that drove me to spend the rest of my life in this direction. What direction exactly, and what did you start doing? In 2011, I started a foundation with my money in order to study scientifically consciousness. And in the last few years, I've come to a theory that explains what consciousness is,

and if you start with consciousness, you explain why physics has to start with quantum physics, and not be classical physics. So, the aspects of quantum physics that physicists have not understood, which are the superposition of these states, for example, which are connected with the entanglement, which is only something happens only quantum physics, and the collapse of the wave function, those things, no one has ever understood why their supposed to exist,

can be explained with the fact that the conscious experience, as exactly those properties, that must reflect in the physical reality, in those physical property, which are actually mathematical properties. You know, quantum physics, everybody tells you, but not all the study, it works, we can make predictions of what we can measure in space and time, but

forms on the show before. The reason quantum physics feels so confusing is because we're looking at it backwards, right? Instead of consciousness emerging from the brain, he believes that consciousness

comes first. It's more fundamental than the brain itself.

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“You cannot get more from less. So you have to start with more, and then you can get less”

from more, but not the other way around. So that's why I came up with this theory. We can explain for example, that the state of the Quanto fields have the same properties over conscious experience. They are private. The Quanto state cannot be copied. If you can be known at all, it can be known by the field itself. What's fascinating is that quantum physics from this point of view is actually describing that deeper layer of reality, maybe like base consciousness instead of

the physical world. That's the same for us. Now we, what I feel, I cannot give it to you. I cannot give it to anybody. I'm the only one to know my inner feelings. Now I can translate my inner feelings with symbols, but those symbols are not the feelings. They are simply symbols to tell you what I'm feeling. The actual experience itself is the quality, the sensation and feelings that you have within yourself. That corresponds to the Quanto state of a field. The meaning

of the experience can be put into symbols with which I communicate my experience to you, but you will not be able to understand my experience unless you have had a similar experience. What Federico is referencing here is something real and physics called the no-cloning theorem, which says that a Quanto state can't be perfectly copied. He suggests that because

Quanto states are in a sense private, they might be similar to our inner experience, which can never

be fully duplicated by another person. For example, if I taste an exotic fruit that tastes very different on any other fruit that I've ever had, if I explain it to you with words, the taste that I had, you will not be able to reconstruct within you that taste. It just, you read the words that they make sense, but they don't mean much to you. I give you a little piece of the fruit and

the way it feels to you." There you go. In symbols that I use, the words that I use

“who are meaningless before you had the experience, the story actually connects the spiritual”

aspect of reality with the, what physics is being saying for the first time. For the first time,

we have a way to understand that Quanto physics is crazy, so to speak, because it doesn't talk about the physical reality. He talks about the inner reality. They have no meaning because they're telling you that you have collapsed the way function, nobody know what it is, where the collapse of the way function is actually a decision of free will or the field which is conscious. It's conscious because it's state is known by the field and that state is private, exactly like our experiences.

What role is the brain play then? If consciousness is not produced by the brain, how would you

explain the brain's function? Okay, so our body then is actually an instrument that the field that

“we are uses to have an experience in this physical reality. So look at the brain like a computer,”

it's more than a classical computer, but it is essentially a computer that is used to transform information in this reality that we don't know what this reality actually is because we experience on the information that the sensory system of the body takes in and transforms into other symbols and those symbols that are transformed, those are the symbols that are conscious field interprets and converts into an experience of the body. Just imagine the body like an avatar in

a computer, you control the avatar, the avatar does what it does. Well, what you see, you think that

it is what the avatar is seeing. Now what you see is how you transform what the computer is telling you about the avatar. The avatar is not feeling anything. Where do you fall on things like simulation theory or reincarnation? Do you think those are accurate? So there is reincarnation in my theory. I'm living one of many lives in this reality, but I, in not the body, I am the field, the controls the body. So in other lives, I had different bodies, even different personalities.

So for me, before the awakening experience, I was the small portion of myself that identified with the body, thought to be the body. And therefore, only what the body was observing was experiencing, now I can experience beyond what the body of service. And so the lapathy begins now to connect

“with our capacities of this field. They go beyond what the body can do. That's why science is said”

in the lapathy cannot exist because there is nothing that we can measure. They could explain that you could have a connection with another human being, but the connection is between the fields. Our experience is in the field. It's not in the body, you see. Okay. So essentially, you've shifted your identity away from seeing yourself as a body. And now you see yourself as something larger that's using a body. Exactly. This would mean, of course, that consciousness is not confined

to the brain and can exist beyond it, opening the door for things like telepathy. So I guess in your words, what is telepathy? So for me, telepathy is the ability, the fields have to communicate with themselves without necessarily the body. For example, think about the out-of-body experiences or the near death experiences. When a person communicates with people that are already dead in another environment in which they

find themselves, obviously it's not the body or the brain, which is not even working communicating, you know, they're communicating somehow, but it's not in the body. The entity, which is now communicating with friends that are dead in this other reality, in which they are communicating, they communicate telepathically. In fact, they don't use words. They understand each other naturally because this communication is field to field.

Telepathy is really a property that we all have to some level to some extent, even when we don't think that it is telepathy. For example, when people have love for each other and they communicate with love, they can understand each other at a much deeper level. They when they communicate just with symbols because love is what actually allows the state or the field to go into resonance with each other. It's like a force that allows resonance between the quantum fields

That's why they understand each other much more deeply. In other words, symbols can only

“convey so much meaning. But science doesn't consider love part of physics. They consider love”

something that happens, you know, in the brain or what I'm new, but it's not our promise or speak. So a lot of what you're saying actually echoes what many of the non-speakers from season one have said about love and interconnectedness and the body and many of them don't even feel like they have a body due to their apraxia, which is a mind-body disconnect. So they go to great lengths to be able to move their bodies or direct their bodies if they even can on their own, which often

takes a great deal of support and co-regulation and often help. So what many have said is that

telepathy communication is baseline and it's just an easier choice for them. It's not, you know,

some mystical magical ability. It's part and parcel of being here. It's just more accessible to them because they're less reliant on their body and their forelanguage.

“Federico describes a group of individuals he spent time with in Italy,”

who have cerebral palsy, which is a neurological disorder that affects movement, muscle tone, and even speech. Some of the individuals he met in Italy have learned to communicate through letterboards, which is a gross motor scale and easier to do if you can't form speech, which is a fine motor scale. If you listen to season one, this is very similar to what non-speakers with apraxia describe. Federico, what was it about these individuals with

cerebral palsy that suggested there was something more going on than meets the eye and when it all this happened? So this happened, let me see, probably about three or four years ago. I was told that there are these people with cerebral palsy that seemed to communicate without speak. So how they can they communicate with each other and so I was curious and I went to take a look.

“Two of them were particularly developed and they started telling me things about myself that”

they couldn't possibly know. How could they know something about my life with the name of my wife friends and my children and things like that sort? What's going on here? Of course, the people around me didn't know either, so it was no way to know. Oh wow, okay, so they just knew things about your life that nobody in the room could have known, right? How long were you there? I spent about a day with them and they were several of them. They were gathered in this place where the foundation

that helps them. They do some very special massage because they're spasticly muscles are tight and you know, to help them out, which it does. But there were two women that had developed disability to communicate, they became readers and so we also then I could ask questions and they were respond. Federico is referencing communication partners here who worked at the foundation who taught some of the individuals with cerebral palsy to spell to communicate. So when Federico

asked questions, the women were there as a support or co-regulator to help them in their responses. Through these questions, I would understand that they could communicate things that they should know. There is no way to know or the readers knowing things of that sort. Wow. So I asked

questions and so on and basically what came out is that they actually communicate with each other.

In fact, they meet like in a square, so to speak, not a physical square, but many of them meet and interact in this square. And so I started thinking what's going on here? This is fascinating. So non-speakers from season one report meeting together in a non-physical space where they can communicate via telepathy and share ideas and encouragement, but they call it the hill. Yes. And what's even more fascinating is that I've talked to people all over the world, most like yourself,

who say it's sometimes called something different. Yeah, they talk about meaning these vaster reality and communicating with each other, not just one to one, but also with others. For example, one kid would say, oh, Andrew here wants to say something. Andrew of course didn't say anything because it doesn't even speak. He's not even in the room, so they go get Andrew and Andrew says, yeah, I want to speak and you know what I mean? Yeah. So how is that possible? Or

how is that possible that what of the kids tells me that he met my mother? And my mother called me with my the name she was calling me when I was a kid, nobody knows which is equal and he used the word equal. I would come on. I mean, how is that possible? Did the teachers know that they were telepathic? Well, they found out because speaking to the reader or the communication and regulation partner, they were able to understand what was going on. And also, myself speaking with them,

that this is private thing that I don't want to reveal here, but how could they possibly know? And when that issue was resolved the next time that I talked to, one of them, it says, that issue has been resolved, right? And you had no way to know. How did you know? Yeah,

“amazing. Now remember, that's why they connected to me. One of them said, I want to talk to Fajin.”

Okay, we won't back up really quick. So they were asking for you by your name? Like your last name? Yes, they didn't even know what Fajin was. And so they found the hug and they contacted me. And that's how I got involved. So how did this impact or maybe change your working theory about consciousness? You know, that was a nice way to try to see if my theory could explain something like that. And indeed, it does because what happens is these people are not completely

embodied because the ego, see the ego in the first year of life, is that portion of the sati,

the sati is the field which is conscious. They want to have an experience in this reality. So just pause here. Federico is saying that psyche or the consciousness are soul wants to have a human experience and that part of the soul ends up here in the physical world. A portion of it ends up identifying with the body, just like we do when we play a video game. So again, in this framework, the version of walking around in a body isn't the whole story.

It's just a fraction of something much bigger, like a greater consciousness. Consciousness is much faster than the one that controls the avatar. But while they're playing the game, they are captivated by the game. They're like hypnotized and believed to be the character that they are playing. So the same is for us. So how is it different for these individuals with cerebral palsy or praxia like the non-speakers we talk about in season one of the club, the

tapes? Since they cannot identify with the body, they are both in this reality and in the other

“reality. That's how you can explain it. It makes a lot of sense. It's like playing a game where”

you never leave this reality, you never identify with the body. And so you are both in that reality,

a little bit in this. It makes sense to me to imagine it like a VR headset. Like when you put on a headset and feel totally immersed in that experience, it can feel like you're really there. But if your headset was cracked or a little loose, you could see out of the sides of it. It would feel harder to be fully integrated into that virtual experience. So in the reality where they are and the other reality with each of us is a field.

They feel this much vaster. It doesn't even exist in space and time. It exists in a deeper reality. And it controls the body. The body operates in this space and time. This space and time would be like a display of a computer where we share the same reality. Also, once you agree that consciousness and free will comes first and their properties of fields, not the properties of the body.

If you think that they are properties of the body, you can never explain this stuff.

It's impossible. Yeah. It's fascinating. And from your research or point of view, you know, why even have a physical experience. In the other reality, there are no bodies that can act on each other. It just would be like, you know, light that goes through each other. They don't hit. You can not act in that reality. Yeah. You can act with the body in this reality. So action is an essential aspect of learning and you can only be done through a body that can

“interact physically with another body. That's why we're here. We are here to do things that we”

could not do in that other reality. For example, the experience that I'm having in this reality is actually storing some memory. There is a memory of our experience. Since we had many lives, we can go back and re-experience, but through that memory, we experienced what we have experience in prior lives. Just like in a computer, if you go back to some of the program, you can run those programs and, you know, they are in the present. The actual experience of

conscious has existed in the present. The important aspect of my experience is actually written in matter. We are here to know ourselves in this sort of top-level view of this new way of looking at the natural reality and to note itself, one must be conscious. So what Federico is suggesting is that who we really are exists beyond space and time in what he calls a field. And that field is using the body to operate in this physical world. But this physical world serves a purpose.

It's where we can act and interact and learn in ways that aren't possible in that deeper,

point said, the physical journey is so important because you can do things here like feel the

“sun on your skin and the wind touching you. And I remember just thinking how true that is. Like”

there's such primal parts of being human, like smelling a campfire, right, or like cuddling under a blanket, cuddling with a person that are so meaningful that you need a body to do to enjoy. And according to Federico's theory, those experiences don't disappear. They're stored somewhere beyond the body, contributing to a larger sense of memory or awareness that extends beyond a single lifetime. How do the fields the quantum fields emanate from the universe, you know,

because physics also starts with a unified field. But the unified field of physics is not found yet, because the unified field of physics is the union of quantum physics and general relativity. And that union has not happened yet, you know, they're still struggling to figure out how to create a unified field. Everybody understand that it has to be a unified field. I start from a unified field, but the unified field is not matter or space and time. The unified field, you know,

is more basic than what we call matter of space and time. Matter of space and time are emergent properties of something which is deeper is not in space and time and so on. So if you start there, then one, one self-reflect and creates a fields. So in a self-reflection of space fields. And then in so on. So those fields also are parts whole or one. In other words, one must be holographic. In order to know itself, the part must contain the whole. Yeah. Even if we have 30 trillion

cells in our body, every cell contains the essence of the whole, which is the DNA. The genome, the genome of every cell in my body is the same genome of the original cell. Look at that. That is exactly the same organization that our body, which is a, you know, a fragment of the totality of what is one, the totality of what exists. So even the body, in order to be able to be a reflection of one in this physical reality, must be made in the image. Yeah. And one question

“we get a lot from listeners is if the consciousness is fundamental, the question of how important”

is Earth where we are, like if it gets sucked through a black hole or Earth is destroyed, what happens to us? Like if our universe gets our son will eventually go away, obviously. Like what will happen to a consciousness or does it not matter? Like how important is the physical space? In this theory, consciousness and free will, the fields are more fundamental than anything. So we are fields, we continue to exist, independent, the physical reality is a concept,

what we see out there is only what hits our sensory system and our instruments, which are also made of the same stuff of which were made. But if a reality is beyond the stuff of which were made and which are instruments are made, well then what we see is on the

portion of what is, let's see, in other words consciousness comes first. And then can you tell me

a little bit about the books that you've written? I have two books that are in English and three books in Italian. The first is an autobiography called Silicon and the subtitle is from the invention of the microprocessor to the new science of consciousness. So it goes through my life in explains why I'm interested in this area and also it gives the first summary view on my theory actually before this theory was completed but sufficiently coherent that the mix of our sense

and it's not contradictory to what I'm saying now. The second book is called Irritusibo. It came out a year and a half ago in English. The third book is beyond invisible. The subtitle is where science and spirituality merge and the last book is a conversation so it's easier in a sense it's less of a treatise like irreducible and it goes deeper and broader than the second book. Federico what a life you've lived has been so insightful to talk to you. So thank you for your time

and your experience and just sharing it with our listeners. Thank you. That's it for this episode of the talk tracks but new episodes will be released every Wednesday so stay tuned as we work to unravel all the threads even the veiled ones that knit together are reality and please

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