Can we falsify the consciousness-causes-collapse hypothesis in quantum mechanics?

DOI10.1007/s10701-017-0110-7zbMath1387.81036arXiv1609.00614OpenAlexW2622580181MaRDI QIDQ1748028

Gary Oas, J. Acácio de Barros

Publication date: 2 May 2018

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.00614

zbMATH Keywords

measurement problemcollapse of the wave functionfourth-order interferencevon Neumann-Wigner interpretation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Physics (00A79)

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