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QM has raised doubt as to any matter exists in a fixed form. It depends on the observer. Who is observing then?
by TriNetra 4y ago
QM has raised doubt as to any matter exists in a fixed form. It depends on the observer. Who is observing then?
- dkersten 4y agoQM doesn’t say the “observer” has to be conscious, or even alive for that matter. Anything that interacts with the system is an observer: be it a sheet you’re firing particles against, an electronic sensor or anything else. All QM really says is that quantum state is unknown and not fixed until you interact with it.
- benibela 4y agoBut then the observer might get entangled with the system, and then the observer is in an unknown state Who is observing the observer?
- sirsinsalot 4y agoWhat, not who.
- dkersten 4y ago> then the observer is in an unknown state So? > Who is observing the observer? No “who”, but anything that interacts with it. Things happen whether or not you’re around to see them. Things interacted millions of years ago and they will continue to interact until the heat death of the universe. The tree falls in the woods regardless of if anybody is there to witness it. No credible peer-reviewed research has ever claimed that the observer is anything more than a physical process or interaction. It’s the quantum consciousness woo woo pseudoscientists who anthropomorphise “observer” to mean a conscious observer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_(quantum_physics) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_(quantum_physics)