Comment on the paper Quantum mechanics needs no consciousness by Yu and Nikolic (2011)

2017/07/05 by Reason, Catherine M
#FOS: Biological sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC) #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1707.01346

Abstract

This is a brief comment on the paper "Quantum mechanics needs no consciousness" by Shan Yu and Danko Nikolic [1]. Yu and Nikolic argue that the "consciousness causes collapse hypothesis" interpretation of quantum mechanics, or CCCH, can be falsified by a particular experimental setup. This claim is incorrect and the cause of the error appears to be a confusion over where and when a collapse can be assumed to occur.

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