Piero Scaruffi

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Piero Scaruffi (born in Trivero, Italy, in 1955, but based in California since 1983) is an Italian poet, historian and scientist.

Contents 1 Poet 2 Historian 3 Scientist 4 Philosopher 5 Notable publications 6 External links

[edit] Poet

As a poet he was awarded several national prizes in his home country, Italy.^{[citation needed]} His most notable poem is widely considered "Dialogo degli Amanti/ Dialogue of the Lovers", a dialogue among three characters (identified as "m", "f" and " ", the third one being probably a reference to a superhuman entity).

[edit] Historian

Scaruffi has published books on the history of rock music, on avantgarde music and a book on the USA. His most popular book ^{[citation needed]} is A History of Rock Music (2003), a thick scholarly work that spans 50 years of the genre. His writing on music is hosted online [1] and includes a history of jazz and a history of modern classical music.

His rock history has become famous ^{[citation needed]} over the Internet partly because of its controversial ^{[citation needed]} ratings, which often disagree with most ^{[citation needed]} of the worldwide music critics. The most significant example is his page about the Beatles, who, in Scaruffi's opinion, are the most overrated band ever.

[edit] Scientist

Piero Scaruffi researched in artificial intelligence from 1987 till 1996, both in the corporate and academic world (with stints as visiting scholar at the MIT and at Stanford University). Afterwards, he conducted independent research on neuroscience, that resulted in his book Thinking About Thought (2003) and lectures at several academic institutions.

His basic tenet is that consciousness is due to a general property of matter. This line of research led him to revisit physics. His most important contribution is a theory of how quantum mechanics could be an emergent phenomenon due to the "ripples" caused by the observer traveling through spacetime.

Believing that one cannot understand the human mind without first understanding what the human mind does, and that, fundamentally, the human mind creates civilizations, he also embarked in a study of the history of knowledge.

In the 1980s, as a computer scientist working at a large computer maker, he pioneered Internet applications, Artificial Intelligence and object-orientated design. As an outgrowth of his computer job, he pioneered Internet-based journalism: in 1985 he created his first e-zine, distributed by e-mail over the Internet, that eventually evolved into his website www.scaruffi.com, originally devoted to rock music only (several years before such websites became ubiquitous).

He has been on the board of the art magazine Leonardo (MIT Press).

[edit] Philosopher

His metaphysics is based on his studies in Physics. Scaruffi reached the conclusion that Relativity Theory is about the universe, about the dimensions of existence, whereas Quantum Theory is about the human world of objects, about the world of "sizes". Relativistic spacetime is the equivalent of an ocean, and quantum values are the equivalent of the ripples caused by an object moving through the ocean of spacetime: Relativity is the theory about the ocean, and Quantum Theory is the theory about the ripples. Quantum Theory describes the ripples caused in spacetime by energy-matter in motion.

[edit] Notable publications

• Scaruffi, Piero. (2006). The Nature of Consciousness. ISBN 0976553112
• Scaruffi, Piero. (2003). A History of Rock Music. iUniverse. ISBN 0595295657
• Scaruffi, Piero. (2003). Thinking About Thought: A primer on the new science of mind. iUniverse. ISBN 0595264204

[edit] External links

• Piero Scaruffi's knowledge base
• The Leonardo Network
• Piero Scaruffi's research on cognitive science
• New York Times article on Piero Scaruffi
• Stanford University's description of Piero Scaruffi's research