Just to add that a common misconception is that a consciousness is required to collapse the wavefunction. That's not true.
I'd argue that a good description of an object being observed, from the state point of view, is simply information about this object being emitted/extracted out of it (and out of the quantum scale into the macroscopic world). Whether there's a human/animal/(incoherent) atom/nothing receiving that information isn't important.
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Just to add that a common misconception is that a consciousness is required to collapse the wavefunction. That's not true.
I'd argue that a good description of an object being observed, from the state point of view, is simply information about this object being emitted/extracted out of it (and out of the quantum scale into the macroscopic world). Whether there's a human/animal/(incoherent) atom/nothing receiving that information isn't important.
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