How can scientists establish an observer-independent science? Embodied cognition, consciousness and quantum mechanics
arXiv Preprint Archive December 28, 2021 John Realpe-Gómez
The action-perception loop of embodied cognition means humans participate in what they perceive, raising the question of how scientists can obtain an observer-independent description of the world. Drawing on the philosophy of mind and a reverse-engineering of science and quantum physics, the authors conjecture that traditional embodiment can manifest aspects of imaginary-time quantum dynamics. They further argue that obtaining real-time quantum dynamics requires additional constraints: an embodied scientist must be described from the perspective of another scientist—a factor ignored in traditional embodied cognition—and observers play complementary roles as both objects experienced by others and subjects that experience other objects.