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Consciousness-Collapse Is Wigner, Not Bohr
The Copenhagen interpretation does not actually attribute wave-function collapse to consciousness; that view was proposed much later by Eugene Wigner and is believed by almost no one. Bohr and Heisenberg tied collapse to measurement and a microscopic/macroscopic distinction, explicitly denying any role for consciousness—and von Neumann's formalism is what forced the wave function to evolve in two incompatible ways.
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Tim MaudlinEvidence Quote
“bohr bohr and heisenberg and so on very strongly denied that they were making any mention of consciousness... they more tied it to things like macroscopic objects”
Created: 6/14/2026, 1:58:49 AM
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