L’uomo non è un algoritmo

“Before him, Silicon Valley was just ‘the Valley’.” That is how Bill Gates described Federico Faggin, the man who invented the world’s first commercial microprocessor in 1971. The physicist and inventor laid a crucial foundation for the modern semiconductor industry, the digital revolution and artificial intelligence.

Today, as the possibilities and limits of AI raise increasingly fundamental questions, Faggin offers a different perspective. Drawing on quantum physics and the philosophy of science, he puts forward a clear proposition: technology may be able to imitate intelligence, but consciousness is neither an algorithm nor a sequence of electrical impulses that can be reproduced in silicon. It lies at the heart of human nature – and is what makes us unique and irreplaceable.

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