"I woke in the night and suddenly, to put it very briefly, I experienced myself
as love. It felt like an unbelievably strong and powerful love an energy which
was both scintillating white and self-knowing -- and it was coming from me. This
I found extraordinary, because I didn't know then that such love could emerge
from me, or from anybody. And so I was stunned. Then this energy exploded, and I
saw that everything is 'made' of that same love. I experienced myself as the
world made of that energy observing myself, and that was mind-blowing, because I
had always experienced myself as separate from the objects of my observations.
But suddenly I was both the observer and the observed. It was a very short
experience, but it changed my life. It gave me a taste that there is more to
reality than what I knew."
Federico Faggin is a physicist and entrepreneur dedicated to the study of
consciousness. He also happens to be the inventor of the world's first
microprocessor, the Intel 4004 chip-- the device at the heart of all our
computer technology. In this remarkable interview he discusses his new
theory-- which puts our interiority and 'the desire to know ourselves at the
centre of reality.'
