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The Problem With the Quantum Zeno Effect
Vignor in 1961 remarks on the mind body question is probably the locus classicus for this people think they find the idea hints of the idea at least in von Neumann. The version Kelvin and I started with does have one rather serious problem with the so-called quantum zeno effect says if you've got some quantities that are constantly being measured they're always measured so they never enter into superpositions then they never change. If there's a little glimmer of consciousness it's going to like it's gonna snap back right only one tiny little low amplitude part of the wave function will it be consciousness.
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