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by matt_kantor 4006 days ago
The trouble with questions like yours is that we're the ones asking them. The results of an unobserved measurement cannot be known, so there's no way to completely remove agency from our experiments.

Personally, I think the simpler and less egocentric view is that all measurements produce wavefunction collapse, even when there's nobody looking.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann–Wigner_interpretat... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurement_problem if you want to read more.