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Gary Oas

1 paper in the library · publishing 2016

Papers

Can we Falsify the Consciousness-Causes-Collapse Hypothesis in Quantum Mechanics?

arXiv Preprint Archive September 2, 2016 J. Acacio de Barros, Gary Oas

The paper argues that proposals claiming to disprove the hypothesis that mind-matter interaction collapses the wave function are fundamentally flawed. It describes a general experimental setup that retains key features of those proposals and shows that even this broader setup cannot disprove the mind-matter collapse hypothesis. Under reasonable assumptions about consciousness, the hypothesis is unfalsifiable.