Consciousness and the Problem of Quantum Measurement
arXiv Preprint Archive November 2, 2019 Chris Allen Broka
A new version of the von Neumann-Wigner interpretation of quantum mechanics replaces wave functions with a vector in Fock space, which is not a function of spacetime coordinates. Consciousness is modeled as a unitary state Q(t) that evolves alongside the physical world according to a common fiducial time. States of the world are classified as 'admissible' (corresponding to definite states of consciousness) or 'inadmissible' (not corresponding to any). The world's state vector always remains restricted to admissible states. Consciousness is treated as an 'M-Property' in Chalmers' sense. The authors argue that this model avoids problems with the quantum Zeno effect.