Consciousness and the measurement problem.
Studies in history and philosophy of science February 1, 2026 Denizhan Eren, Majid D Beni
This paper examines two approaches to the measurement problem in quantum mechanics, invoking the concept of consciousness and highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of each. The first approach is the model proposed by David Chalmers and Kelvin McQueen, based on the idea of the Consciousness Collapses Wave Function (CCWF), originally attributed to John von Neumann and Eugene Wigner. The...
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Consciousness
Continuous spontaneous localization
Integrated information theory
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