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Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics: How are they related?



Sabine Hossenfelder

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The paper from Chalmers and McQueen is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02314

Wigner’s essay is here: https://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/scientists/wigner/Wigner_Remarks.pdf

The 1989 paper about consciousness-influence on measurements is here: http://teilhard.global-mind.org/papers/pdf/REG.meta-analysis.1989.pdf

The 2012 paper about the influence of consciousness on the double-slit experiment is here:
http://www.esalq.usp.br/lepse/imgs/conteudo_thumb/Consciousness-and-the-double-slit-interference-pattern-Six-experiments.pdf

The criticism on their statistical analysis is here: https://philpapers.org/rec/WALRCF

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00:00 Intro
00:34 Wigner and his friends
03:39 Enter von Neumann
05:51 Problems with the Wigner-vNeumann interpretation
07:37 Consciousness-induced wave-function collapse
09:38 Consciousness-influenced wave-function collapse
14:27 Penrose and Hamaroff
15:25 Summary
16:02 Check out my Quantum Mechanics Course

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30 thoughts on “Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics: How are they related?
  1. easy to answer: They aren't . Consciousness is a form of self-deceptions of social individuals living in lalaLand, but they are often good in abstract thought, thus often physicists….. von Neumann had none by the way

  2. So…I was under the impression that when measuring the wave function, the collapse occurs whether a conscious observer is present or a mechanical one(like a measurement device)?

  3. I KNEW it!
    Since childhood, I've always had a deep rooted, nagging Intuition that Cheese was behind all Reality, not just the Moon.
    Thanks Sabine, you've made my life complete

  4. Well done, Sabine! The concept of superposition is truly fascinating. I appreciate your apology. A single carrot.😉

  5. I’m not worried about the carrots. They may have excellent eyesight, but they can’t read or hear anything.

  6. Consciousness has been excellently explained in very detailed in Ancient Indian scripture- Vedanta

    Only real thing in whole universe in Consciousness ( The Awareness) which is all pervading

    Everything else is just the manifestation of that consciousness- sort of matter energy time space and everything else is just the emergent property of Consciousness ( Awareness)

    Aham Brahmasmi- I am the universe

  7. Says: "Bohr had no problem with saying things incomprehensible, and a lot of physicist since have followed his example," then promptly proceeds to demonstrate that he was right.

  8. I've wondered how quantum mechanics plays into the operation of a biological brain vs the limited synthetic neural networks we have now. The exact timing of neurons firing essentially comes down to individual molecular reactions which involve quantum physics. It could mean that we end up making a decision one way or another based on quantum randomness, or that we made the decision both ways.

  9. Yesterday morning at 9am I thought about making a chocolate cake at 11am. I live alone and told no one of my sinister intentions, then 2 hours later I made said chocolate cake and guess what I ate it too?..
    There was no cake at 9am it didn't exist but I knew there would be cake at 11am this is the question

  10. I wonder what Bohr would think about the role of knowledge and the conjoined twins who share a thalamic bridge and can observe items themselves AND see what the twin sees and feel what the twin feels. It is “spooky action” in reality. The twins are in Canada and doctors have done exams but I think physicists like yourself should be thinking about observations in THEIR world. Which twin’s observation control reality?

    I believe these twins’ existence, where they can both perceive information AND receive the twin’s info simultaneously, contradicts Wegner’s assertion of no such influencing phenomenon existing. Does anyone know if the twin’s brains have been written about from a physics standpoint?

  11. I think through electromagnetic and our echoreceptivity somehow. Of course coming from a baby in this knowledge. I know some Quatum, love the subject, but am truly needing to study. Loving all of you.

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