Consciousness collapsing the wave function, that is so 1950... 
It pains me a bit that in the OP Schroedinger is mentioned in the same breath with Chopra, Capra, and Lanza. As for Kaku, that man is seriously starting to piss me off, and I'm quite annoyed that he is present in popular science in the US so much.
On the other hand, and more to the point of the OP, I have Heisenbergs "Physics and Philosophy" at home and started reading it, and I had to put it down because of all the waffling about consciousness and so on. I just think that while QM is hard to wrap your head around indeed, the early proponents were a bit more confused about it than necessary. Who can blame them...
It pains me a bit that in the OP Schroedinger is mentioned in the same breath with Chopra, Capra, and Lanza. As for Kaku, that man is seriously starting to piss me off, and I'm quite annoyed that he is present in popular science in the US so much.
On the other hand, and more to the point of the OP, I have Heisenbergs "Physics and Philosophy" at home and started reading it, and I had to put it down because of all the waffling about consciousness and so on. I just think that while QM is hard to wrap your head around indeed, the early proponents were a bit more confused about it than necessary. Who can blame them...
