This is Spirit Jim. Today's guest is Federico Fajin, an Italian physicist turned inventor and author.

Federico created Silicon Gate technology in 1968, a semiconductor manufacturing process that underlies all modern computing.

Federico also created the first commercial microprocessor at Intel,

created the touchpad, touchscreen, and was a pioneer in artificial intelligence development,

putting the first neural net on a chip in 1989.

Federico worked to create conscious experience in computers for years before concluding that it was

impossible for computers to become conscious. After an awakening experience in which he experienced

himself as the part whole of the totality of existence, Federico chose to dedicate his work to the

understanding of consciousness. His latest book is irreducible,

consciousness, life, computers and human nature. Thank you for listening to this podcast, which would

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Paulcheck.com forward slash podcast. Well, Federico, it's a great pleasure to have you here

on Spirit Gym today, and I really love your books. I've got them both

right here. I listened to your first one on audio book while I was training in the gym and

thought it was fantastic and I've read as much through I could as I could with this one and

it looks like you've produced another excellent book, so I'm very grateful for that.

And it's great for me to have you here

because there's a lot of questions with your knowledge

and your background that I've been wanting to find

somebody that could answer these questions

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