The Wigner interpretation (consciousness causes wave function collapse) has been held by Wigner and others, though Wigner was not dogmatic about it; however, Penrose's view is nearly opposite: an objective physical process involving gravity causes collapse, not conscious observation.

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Roger Penrose

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my view is that it's almost the opposite...there is an objective physical process which...deviates from the schrodinger equation

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Asking a Theoretical Physicist About the Physics of Consciousness | Roger Penrose | EP 244Jordan B Peterson
Created: 8/11/2026, 1:07:02 AM

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