Consciousness and Quantum Measurement

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A variant of the von Neumann-Wigner Interpretation is proposed. It does not make use of the familiar language of wave functions and observers. Instead it pictures the state of the physical world as a vector in a Fock space and, therefore not, literally, a function of any spacetime coordinates. And, rather than segregating consciousness into individual points of view, this model proposes only unitary states of consciousness, Q, where t represents a fiducial time with respect to which both the state of the physical world and the state of consciousness evolve. This would seem to impose a preferred Lorentz frame on the world. But it will be argued that no physical violations of relativity are engendered thereby.

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Remarks on the Mind-Body Question.E. Wigner - 2003 - In John Heil (ed.), Philosophy of Mind: A Guide and Anthology. Oxford University Press.

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