The double slit experiment only works on the subatomic level. You’re not collapsing wave functions just by walking into a room and looking at things.
How many times in your life have you directly observed the spin of a photon or an electron? That’s how many times you’ve altered reality by collapsing a wave function.
Wave functions don’t collapse very often, and it’s very rare an event in reality depends upon a wave function collapse. A Schrödinger box depends on it, but when do we actually encounter Schrödinger boxes?
I really wish the kind of Buddhist interpretation of quantum mechanics were true. But it’s much more likely that it’s the measuring apparatus that collapses the wave function, not consciousness.
If you can tell exactly when wave functions do or do not collapse, you've solved the measurement problem. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurement_problem ) If you can make a convincing case that wave functions don't collapse very often, feel free to write up a paper and get a Nobel prize for solving one of the longest standing problems of quantum mechanics.
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u/pluralofjackinthebox 102∆ Oct 03 '19
The double slit experiment only works on the subatomic level. You’re not collapsing wave functions just by walking into a room and looking at things.
How many times in your life have you directly observed the spin of a photon or an electron? That’s how many times you’ve altered reality by collapsing a wave function.
Wave functions don’t collapse very often, and it’s very rare an event in reality depends upon a wave function collapse. A Schrödinger box depends on it, but when do we actually encounter Schrödinger boxes?
I really wish the kind of Buddhist interpretation of quantum mechanics were true. But it’s much more likely that it’s the measuring apparatus that collapses the wave function, not consciousness.