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Who is the observer?

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Who is the observer?

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According to the standard account of Quantum Mechanics, if someone other than myself makes an experimental observation; I should properly account for that observer and their observation as part of a wider whole which is itself described by an extended Wavefunction. In this case, the Wavefunction (that now also describes the other observer) would not collapse and yield (to my consciousness) a definite answer. I would instead have a probabilistic and ambiguous description of what the other would subjectively account for as a definite and precise result. All that I could say is that certain probabilities were associated with various outcomes, and that if the exact same set of circumstances were to repeat themselves, then these probabilities would determine the relative frequencies with which the various distinct outcomes occurred. The Wavefunction only discontinuously collapses for the subject who actually makes the observation. For all the rest of us, life continues its continuous develo

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