Environment, consciousness, and quantum measurement

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Foundations of Physics 6 (5):599-605 (1976)
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It is shown that (a) the conscious observer plays no essential part in the measurement process, and (b) environmental perturbations of whatever kind fail to account for the evolution of systems into “mixtures” or “dynamically decoupled” systems

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10.1007/bf00715112

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On the interpretation of measurement in quantum theory.H. D. Zeh - 1970 - Foundations of Physics 1 (1):69-76.

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