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The cat in the machine: Consciousness and the collapse of the wavefunction

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2002

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Fletcher, Neville H.

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Australian Institute of Physics

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Schrodinger's famous thought experiment about a cat in a box is included in almost all books and courses on quantum mechanics, but is generally presented as a paradox without a solution. This informal essay discusses the problem and suggests that it is not really insoluble at all, but rather that it leads to a common-sense interpretation of the 'real' meaning of the quantum wavefunction.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/213603

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The Physicist

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2037-12-31

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