But how do you know that there was or wasn’t an interference pattern? Did some conscious being observe the results? Oh, but it was after the fact? The quantum erasure experiment proves that time doesn’t matter to wave function collapse. There is nothing more “woo” about consciousness causing the collapse vs a many worlds interpretation or any other interpretation of quantum physics. The “woo” label is personal feelings and not science. It’s academic slander.
You have a box with 2 wires coming out of it. The wires are connected to a display in the box. Looking at the display is either 1) a live awake human, or 2) a dead spider. Can you tell which is which, without opening the box? Can you use the fact that the human observing something causes a quantum collapse, and the spider doesn’t to distinguish them. Can you build a quantum consciousness detector? No.
Suppose I write a simple computer program that takes in data from a quantum physics experiment, and tells me whether the data as a whole is consistent with quantum physics. I don’t know where the photon went on any particular run, all any conscious human sees is a single yes or no. Would you expect the same results. Yes.
I take an emulated human mind, and put the whole thing on an extremely powerful quantum computer. I simulate the mind in a superposition of states. Would you expect the quantum computer to go into a superposition correctly, despite the person being conscious.
Suppose Joe has opinions on the numbers 1 to 1000, he either thinks that they are all good, or all bad, or that some half are good and the other half are bad. If you tell him a number, it will take him 1 minute, to say if its good or bad. It would take a classical computer 501 min worst case to tell if he has the same opinion of all numbers. But a quantum computer can do it in just 2 min. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch%E2%80%93Jozsa_algorithm
If you disagree with any of these, we have a factual disagreement about an experimental result. If you agree, then “consciousness” seems to be an invisible inaudible dragon to quantum mechanics. I would have to ask how you know that its consciousness that causes collapse, not DNA.
But how do you know that there was or wasn’t an interference pattern? Did some conscious being observe the results? Oh, but it was after the fact? The quantum erasure experiment proves that time doesn’t matter to wave function collapse. There is nothing more “woo” about consciousness causing the collapse vs a many worlds interpretation or any other interpretation of quantum physics. The “woo” label is personal feelings and not science. It’s academic slander.
You have a box with 2 wires coming out of it. The wires are connected to a display in the box. Looking at the display is either 1) a live awake human, or 2) a dead spider. Can you tell which is which, without opening the box? Can you use the fact that the human observing something causes a quantum collapse, and the spider doesn’t to distinguish them. Can you build a quantum consciousness detector? No.
Suppose I write a simple computer program that takes in data from a quantum physics experiment, and tells me whether the data as a whole is consistent with quantum physics. I don’t know where the photon went on any particular run, all any conscious human sees is a single yes or no. Would you expect the same results. Yes.
I take an emulated human mind, and put the whole thing on an extremely powerful quantum computer. I simulate the mind in a superposition of states. Would you expect the quantum computer to go into a superposition correctly, despite the person being conscious.
Suppose Joe has opinions on the numbers 1 to 1000, he either thinks that they are all good, or all bad, or that some half are good and the other half are bad. If you tell him a number, it will take him 1 minute, to say if its good or bad. It would take a classical computer 501 min worst case to tell if he has the same opinion of all numbers. But a quantum computer can do it in just 2 min. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch%E2%80%93Jozsa_algorithm
If you disagree with any of these, we have a factual disagreement about an experimental result. If you agree, then “consciousness” seems to be an invisible inaudible dragon to quantum mechanics. I would have to ask how you know that its consciousness that causes collapse, not DNA.