I am reading Dr. Federico Faggin's 2024 book Irreduc ible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature , in which he " explains his theory of consciousness and the nature of reality and shares his profound insights on the classical and quantum worlds, artificial intelligence, life, and the human mind." 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

This past fall, 2023 I took an OLLI course called Unraveling the Mysteries of Consciousness. John Kalb, the instructor defined...