Quanta and Mind by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030219086
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Wigner highlights that the “‘our’ in this sentence refers to the observer who plays a singular role in the epistemology of quantum mechanics” (Wigner 1979, p. 172, note 3). But, as we saw in the discussion of von Neumann’s view, the introduction of the observer and the introduction of consciousness are strictly different, since the observer can be understood as part of the physical world under study. Furthermore, Heisenberg’s remark is not particularly about consciousness: he is acknowledging the role of the observer and making an epistemological point to the effect that one’s knowledge of elementary particles ultimately depends on the observer. Even if it is granted that knowledge of such particles depends on the observer (most pieces of knowledge do, in some way or another), it does not follow, however, that consciousness and its qualitative features are required for that.

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