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John A. Wheeler
Also known as: John A. Wheeler, John Wheeler
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Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Nov 30, 2004 7 facts
claimChristopher Fuchs has formally developed the approach of John Wheeler regarding quantum Bayesianism (QBism).
claimJohn Wheeler's slogan 'it from bit' refers to the necessity of selecting a question to create a partition in an unpartitioned state space, which then allows for the definition of bits, rather than simply referring to the yes-no alternative decided by a measurement.
claimArthur Eddington (1946) and John Wheeler (1994) suggested approaches toward a base reality that is neither mental nor material.
claimJohn Wheeler developed the concept of 'observer-participancy,' an idea originally proposed by Niels Bohr, which suggests that experiments are tools where nature provides objective answers to questions, while the selection of those questions is a subjective act.
claimJohn Wheeler’s concept of observer-participancy, which includes a mind-matter link, can be interpreted as a special case of the correlations found in dual-aspect monism.
claimUsing information-based concepts in a non-epistemic manner is inconsistent or confusing if the common syntactic significance of Shannon-type information is intended, a critique that applies to John Wheeler’s 'it from bit' hypothesis and other information-based approaches.
claimJohn Wheeler introduced the notion of a 'meaning circuit' to interpret correlations between the mental and the physical, distinguishing meaning from syntactic information measurable in bits.
Consciousness-Induced Quantum State Reduction - Nova Spivack novaspivack.com Jun 2, 2025 3 facts
referenceJohn A. Wheeler and Wojciech H. Zurek edited the 1983 book 'Quantum Theory and Measurement', published by Princeton University Press, which compiles key texts on quantum theory and measurement.
referenceJohn A. Wheeler's 1990 chapter 'Information, physics, quantum: The search for links' in the book 'Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information' (edited by W. H. Zurek) explores the connections between information, physics, and quantum theory.
referenceThe geometric theory of consciousness-induced state reduction provides a physical instantiation of John Wheeler's 'participatory universe' concept, which posits that the act of observation is not passive but contributes to the definition of reality.
Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org Dec 20, 2023 1 fact
claimPhysicist John Wheeler (1983) alluded to the idea that reality comes into being only when perceived, aligning with George Berkeley's 'esse est percipi' slogan, based on the interpretation that quantum measurement involves conscious observation.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Nov 30, 2004 1 fact
referenceJohn A. Wheeler authored the 1994 paper 'It from bit', published in the book 'At Home in the Universe', by the American Institute of Physics in Woodbury, pages 295–311.