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AuntyMatter
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You have probably heard this a thousand times before, but here goes...
We have an electron gun pointing at a double slit setup.
We switch it on and emit a single electron.
The electron approaches the double slit.
At each instant that electron has a definite position.
We do not consciously know where the electron is, so we do not know which slit it will pass through.
The Universe knows where the electron is because the electron contributes to the gravitational field.
We are part of the Universe, so we intrinsically know where it is at any instant.
Is the 'collapse of the wave-function' the transition from intrinsic to conscious knowledge ?
We have an electron gun pointing at a double slit setup.
We switch it on and emit a single electron.
The electron approaches the double slit.
At each instant that electron has a definite position.
We do not consciously know where the electron is, so we do not know which slit it will pass through.
The Universe knows where the electron is because the electron contributes to the gravitational field.
We are part of the Universe, so we intrinsically know where it is at any instant.
Is the 'collapse of the wave-function' the transition from intrinsic to conscious knowledge ?