consciousness

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essay draft 2026-07-24 · faggin, intel-4004, consciousness, panpsychism, reproducibility

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D'Ariano and Faggin's QIP grounds unshareable, private experience in quantum no-cloning: only nonclassical information cannot be read or copied without disturbance

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · faggin, dariano, panpsychism, quantum-information, no-cloning
'Quantum Information Panpsychism' is D'Ariano and Faggin's own term for their theory, stated in their 2020 joint paper — not a summarizer's label

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · faggin, dariano, panpsychism, quantum-information, consciousness
Does Faggin's Irreducible actually contain the 'silicon will never transmute into qualia' line, and is 'Quantum Information Panpsychism' its accurate characterization?

capture promoted 2026-08-01 · faggin, irreducible, consciousness, panpsychism, qualia
Widrow's PhD student built the Intel 4004; the 4004's circuit designer later said silicon can never be conscious

capture promoted Tier mixed, see per-claim tiers below 2026-07-09 · hop, oral-history, neural-networks, backpropagation-history, microprocessor
Federico Faggin, who did the transistor-level circuit design of the Intel 4004, later argued that classical silicon computation can never produce consciousness

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-09 · faggin, intel-4004, microprocessor, consciousness, panpsychism
Does Faggin's *Irreducible* actually contain the 'silicon will never transmute into qualia' line, and is 'Quantum Information Panpsychism' (with D'Ariano) its accurate characterization?

question open 2026-07-09 · faggin, irreducible, consciousness, panpsychism, qualia
Werbos's "Optimization: A Foundation for Understanding Consciousness" (1997, not 1996) argues optimization is a useful tool for understanding mind — and is explicitly not his fullest statement on consciousness

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-08 · werbos, consciousness, mind, optimization, neural-networks
Capture: What does Werbos argue in his 1996 chapter "Optimization: A Foundation for Understanding Consciousness" and does it constitute his fullest primary statement on mind/consciousness?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-06 · werbos, consciousness, mind, optimization, neural-networks