What Is a Seity? The Moment Consciousness Looked Back | Irreducible Chapter 10 - Thinking On Paper Technology Podcast

A seity is not a metaphor. Not a machine. It is a conscious entity, identity, free will, and creativity fused into one indivisible whole.

Federico Faggin names it in Chapter 10 of Irreducible. If quantum information is the fabric of reality, then seities are its living threads.

Faggin writes: “A seity is a reality that goes beyond all categories and all definitions.” That is the point. You cannot break it into parts. You cannot simulate it with code. A seity generates meaning from within.

Seities do not merely observe the world, they create it. Each choice collapses possibility into form. Accepting or rejecting an axiom is not an intellectual exercise; it’s an act of creation. The universe is not static. It is a conversation among seities.

To make this tangible, Faggin imagines a vibration sphere: a square full of people and animals, each producing vibrations. The vibrations are symbols. The lived experience behind them is qualia. Together they form a collective field of meaning. Every seity is both transmitting and tuning, free will deciding which signals matter and which fade into noise.

Then they build the universe. At least in this model of reality.

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Chapters

(00:00) Federico Faggin, Irreducible Chapter 10

(02:10) Computers And Consciousness

(03:31) Seities All The Way Down

(10:25) Carl Jung Collective Consciousness

(12:02) Quantum Freud

(15:21) Robots, AI And Seities

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