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Old 04-08-2008, 11:25 AM
David Bailey David Bailey is offline
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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos View Post
Are you sure those observations can't be interactions with other objects?
~~ Paul
Well of course I am not sure, any more than you can be sure that anything else will do - you obviously know the argument that a classical measuring apparatus can also be treated as a quantum system - that is exactly why Schroedinger introduced his famous cat (I wish he had used a rat instead, that bit of QM has always made me wince).

The quotes that Tor produced obviously indicate that the originators of the theory were at least considering the possibility that it is only the mind that performs the wave function collapse.

David
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