Von Neumann/Wigner interpretation: consciousness causes the collapse

Von Neumann/Wigner interpretation: consciousness causes the collapse

In his treatise The Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, TDA8947J John von Neumann deeply analyzed the so-called measurement problem. He concluded that the entire physical universe could be made subject M48T18-150PCI to the Schr?dinger equation (the universal wave function). Since something outside the calculation was needed to collapse the wave function, AK97-01553A von Neumann concluded that the collapse was caused by the consciousness of the experimenter.This point of view was later more prominently expanded on by Eugene STK014 Wigner, but remains a view held by very few physicists.This principle, that consciousness causes the collapse, is the point of intersection between quantum mechanics and the mind/body problem; and researchers k2645 are working to detect conscious events correlated with physical events that, according to quantum theory, should involve a wave function collapse; but, thus far, results are inconclusive.