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#33 – Testing consciousness causes collapse: an interview with Kelvin McQueen

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The McQueen Chalmers Theory and Consciousness

McQueen Chalmers theory uses all of these um framings in quantum it and then add consciousness into the situation. The idea is that consciousness when it enters into a system becomes entangled with it It's going to reduce all superposition Yeah, that's right And so reality will take on a given definite state and no longer be in this superposition Yes, so the idea was something like this So you're performing a measurement. Maybe you've got just a particle in a superposition of being here and being there And then you've got a measuring device that measures position Now as the Schrödinger equation without collapse tells us that when you correlate the state of the measuring device with the state of

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