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In this paper I report a public discussion with E.P. Wigner that took place in 1987 at a conference on fundamental problems in Quantum Mechanics. In it Wigner clarified an idea that was widely attributed to him about consciousness playing a direct role in the quantum measurement process. He significantly revised that idea, and distanced himself from the earlier notion that consciousness plays a direct role.
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Ballentine, L.E. A Meeting with Wigner. Found Phys 49, 783–785 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-019-00283-x
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