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One of the most troubling assumptions of quantum mechanics is the projection postulate. This is the postulate which causes many to believe that there is a special role for consciousness in nature. The projection postulate describes what happens not in any circumstances but in those special circumstances in which an observation is made; and what is supposed to happen when an observation is made is very different from what happens in other interactions. When an observation is made, a ‘reduction of the wave packet’ occurs which does not occur otherwise.
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Cartwright, N. (1983). How the Measurement Problem is an Artifact of the Mathematics. In: Swinburne, R. (eds) Space, Time and Causality. Synthese Library, vol 157. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6966-7_8
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