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Article 6248 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: vender@plains.NoDak.edu (Brad Vender)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Quantum consciousness
Summary: Observer not needed
Keywords: quantum mechanics, consciousness
Message-ID: <18424@plains.NoDak.edu>
Date: 14 Jun 92 05:43:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.18424
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
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>From my understanding of quantum physics, the consciousness of the observer
  is unimportant.  In order to perceive the state of a particle,
  a device is required to either interact with or act upon the particle
  to produce a response (e.g. particle detectors).  The consciousness of
  the scientist observing the results plays no part in it (unless someone
  wishes to put consciousness in the measuring device :) ).
My other objection to the inclusion of this thread here is
  If an object's state is not observable, it is of no importance.
  (This I learned in High School science classes)
  Obviously since we are physical objects, this instance of us represents
  a collapsed wave function of some sort (or perhaps we're just inside the
  wave function at some state or other).

In any event, the interactions required to observe the particle's state
  are what collapse the wave function of the particle, not the intelligence
  of the observer.
--vender@plains.nodak.edu (who may or may not be human)


