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View SchemaObjective vs Observer Measurements
| Authors | Richard A Mould |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0303065 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0303065 |
Abstract
Post-inflationary boundary conditions are essential to the existence of our highly structured universe, and these can only come about through quantum mechanical state reductions - i.e., through measurements. The choice is between: An 'objective' measurement that allows reduction to occur independent of conscious observers, and an 'observer' based measurement that ties reduction to the existence of a conscious observer. It is shown in this paper that that choice cannot be determined empirically; so how we finally understand state reduction will be decided by the way that reduction is used in a wider (future) theoretical framework. Key Words: consciousness, decoherence, stochastic choice, wave collapse.
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