Tag: The Observer Problem
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ESSAY 3 — THE WITNESS
What remains when the observer cannot be found as an object Something has gone unnoticed in the course of the last two essays. Not a concept. Not an argument. Something closer to home than either. Essay 1 tracked the observer problem through a century of physics — from Young’s darkened room to Bell’s theorem —…
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Seven Notes on The Observer
Argument 1: The Question Physics Cannot Answer From Inside Physics, Why? Every experiment in quantum mechanics requires a specification of measurement — which introduces the question of the observer. Not metaphorically. Not as a poetic flourish. The mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics — the Schrödinger equation, the Born rule, the measurement problem — cannot be…