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>From: weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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Subject: Re: QM nonsense
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Date: 18 Feb 92 00:11:15 GMT
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In article <ABOULANG.92Feb15194336@icarus.bbn.com>, aboulang@bbn (Albert Boulanger) writes:
>There has been some recent experimental work on QM measurement that
>indicate that the extremal position of conscious-driven wavefunction
>collapse is not workable (machine driven watch pot experiment). Here
>is a copy of a posting from sci.physics:

And I responded to your posting then, in the same way I'm responding to
Stanley Friesen: it does not rule the extreme view out, since they still
make the same experimental predictions.

All the experiment can do is emphasize experimentally just how weird the
extreme view is.  Schroedinger's cat was the first theoretical description,
and the debate is still alive.
-- 
-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu)


