RE: Exposing the Intellectual Bankruptcy of Atheists Criticizing Religion
November 20, 2015 at 4:08 pm
(November 20, 2015 at 3:40 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(November 20, 2015 at 3:30 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: There are other equally puzzling QM findings that cut the other way and put conscious observation as an actual causal agent...
Quote:"Of course the introduction of the observer must not be misunderstood to imply that some kind of subjective features are to be brought into the description of nature. The observer has, rather, only the function of registering decisions, i.e., processes in space and time, and it does not matter whether the observer is an apparatus or a human being; but the registration, i.e., the transition from the "possible" to the "actual," is absolutely necessary here and cannot be omitted from the interpretation of quantum theory."
Werner Heisenberg
In short, 'observation' doesn't mean observation by a conscious agent, only measurement. See for example the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_ch...tum_eraser
Suppose the observer is indeed an insensate apparatus and not a conscious observer, the existence of the measuring apparatus depends on the observations made by other measuring apparatuses the existence of which depends on the observations of another... and so on. Thus even apparatuses remain only possible & contingent until there is an actual & necessary apparatus of some kind.