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by monochr 4097 days ago
And who exactly makes the observations? Is a cat good enough? A chimp? If we get someone really smart to look at an electron can we collapse it better?

The brain centered quantum mechanics I've seen become fashionable to lay people in the last 20 years are a last gasp of homo-centrism that really should have died a very long time ago.

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No one said animals are not good enough to do it. It is not homo-centrism, it is consciousness-centrism if you wish to name it.