In his 1955 monograph, John von Neumann concluded that it is inessential whether a detector or a human brain is referred to as the "observer" because the result of measurements on an object system remains the same regardless of where the boundary between the observed and observing system is placed.

Authors

• Person: Not available Organization: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  Quantum Approaches to Consciousness

Sources

• Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy via serper

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