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If physics cannot explain consciousness, then can consciousness explain physics? It is a fact that quantum physics, in spite of all of its spectacular successes, bogs down when the fundamental question of quantum measurement is asked: Who or what collapses the quantum wave function? Who or what makes actuality out of mere possibility? Is consciousness the answer to this million-dollar question?
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Goswami, A. (2001). Consciousness Enters Physics. In: The Physicists’ View of Nature. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0527-3_17
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