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I think we all understand the joke is that the eyes represent the endpoint of the observation apparatus. That is the first panel is isolated and the second panel has a detector measuring the path that the scientist then looks at.

So yeah, “eyes” don’t cause a waveform collapse. But how does a two panel cartoon with no words represent no interaction? First panel is blank?

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x00z@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
On the other hand, maybe our personal observation doesn’t just cause a waveform to collapse, but also collapses a logical path for said wave backwards into time. This would mean that even the results of the initial observation only collapse at the moment you look at them.

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- Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  So at what point in human evolution was one human conscious enough to have the first observation and therefore spring quantum mechanics into existence in the universe?
  
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  - x00z@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    What if both human evolution and “other humans” follow the same unfolding? You’d create all of that in every moment. Even the memories and logistics needed for that. That would mean that there is only now and reality has been creating itself over and over again infinitely.
    
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    Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    So only scientists capable of observing create the entire universe from moment to moment? People who are extraordinarily stupid or just sleeping don’t independently exist?
    
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  - LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Obviously any living creature can become entangled with the quantum experiment if you build the right apparatus. Build a machine that kills a cat if an atom decays, and you’ve made cats into quantum observers. When the cat observes the experiment by not dying, it collapses from the cat’s point of view. When you observe the cat, it collapses from your point of view.
    
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    Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    When the cat observes the experiment by not dying, it collapses from the cat’s point of view.
    
    If an interaction occurs it collapses for all points of view. The geiger counter is the observer.
    
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CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Someone gets it

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- Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That’s not “litterally” how it works then, just “figuratively”.
  
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