Between myth and history: von Neumann on consciousness in quantum mechanics.
Studies in history and philosophy of science August 21, 2025 Federico Laudisa
The von Neumann attitude on such a deep interpretational question as the role of a human observer in order for the quantum description of measurement to be consistent has been long misrepresented. The large majority of the subsequent literature ascribed to von Neumann a radical view, according to which not only the collapse was in itself a truly physical process, but also the only way to...