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Article 7539 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
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Subject: Re: Ginsberg and Human intelligence vs. Machine intelligence
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Avrom Faderman writes:
 > [...]
 > For those that disagree, imagine that, instead of a cat, a conscious 
 > (aren't cats at least a little conscious, anyway?) observer, such as a 
 > person, were trapped in the box.  Now, _from_the_perspective_of_an_
 > _experimenter_outside_the_box, all Schroedinger's assumptions still hold.  
 > So we must conclude that even the person inside the box is, from someone's 
 > perspective, in a superposition of states.  Therefore "conscious
 > observation" has nothing to do with the collapse of the wave function.
 > 
 > 
 > -- 
 > Avrom I. Faderman                  |  "...a sufferer is not one who hands
 > avrom@csli.stanford.edu            |    you his suffering, that you may 
 > Stanford University                |    touch it, weigh it, bite it like a
 > CSLI and Dept. of Philosophy       |    coin..."  -Stanislaw Lem

So who "observes" (or observed) that unique quantum event, the Big
Bang? 

And when did they do so?

Gordon
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