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Originally Posted by Rizla
I didn't know that. I thought the role of consciousness in the double-slit experiment was inescapable.
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The double slit experiment highlights the role of the "observer" in quantum mechanics, but doesn't necessarily require consciousness on the part of the observer. There is an interpretation which does postulate that (the Von Neumann–Wigner interpretation), but it's very much a minority position. A more widely held view is that a conscious observer is not required.
For example, from Heisenberg's "Physics and Philosophy":
"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;".
/JB