[electrograv]

Usually when there's a paradox like this, it means we've chosen bad axioms somewhere. Even things that seem intuitively self-evident can prove untrue.

For example, what if time does not necessarily flow in a single direction at the quantum scale; what if instead, the ground level of physical reality is a timeless information graph / equation that is 'solved by the universe'?

I'm no physicist and no nearly nothing about the real math of QM, but every time I read these lay-explanations of "quantum weirdness" and "wave function collapse", I get this strange feeling that we're thinking about time all wrong: What if unidirectional time is an illusion? What if causality (and inference) is an illusion (thus explaining how hard it is to capture it mathematically)?

[AstralStorm]

The specific axioms seem to be at fault in both thought experiments in step 0.00.

Iterated experiment presumes creating fully known fixed same state psi.

Wiener Friends experiment makes the F1 magically know (memorize) state of quantum RNG without measuring it and without being entangled.

Both experiments require cloning which is forbidden.

[comboy]

> What if causality (and inference) is an illusion

You may want to check David Hume.