(February 1, 2015 at 10:41 am)Alex K Wrote:(February 1, 2015 at 10:38 am)Brian37 Wrote: Science is pointing away from a consciousness as a requirement as a cause no matter what we currently don't know about QM.
There simply is no need to fill in the gap with a giant cognition.
That's right. In the first decades of QM some people thought consciousness was the thing causing wave functions to collapse, spawning all kinds of woo on the sidelines, but this view has been largely discarded now as an artifact of the initial confusion about the theory.
It was never taken seriously at all. The woo was popularized by si fi shows like Star Trek. Even today some still fall for si fi crap. NASA put out an article about the "warp drive" and everyone went ape shit over it and failed to read the entire thing. "Plausible" and "likely" are the part they missed, it was only mathematical on paper. The article also said to do that it would take all the energy in the universe.
Si fi woo is as bad as religious woo.
