Consciousness-Causes-Collapse (von Neumann-Wigner)
The interpretation of quantum mechanics - traced to von Neumann's 1932 measurement formalism and made explicit by Eugene Wigner - that the wave function collapses only when a conscious observer registers the outcome. Long marginal in physics, it is the theoretical cornerstone cited by parapsychologists and consciousness researchers arguing that mind can influence physical reality.
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his 1932 measurement formalism located the collapse at observationvon Neumann, Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (1932)
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made it explicit that consciousness collapses the wave functionVon Neumann-Wigner interpretation (Wikipedia)
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parapsychologists cite it as the physics basis for mind affecting matterRadin double-slit consciousness experiments; psi literature
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a cornerstone of the quantum-consciousness debate it hostsquantum-consciousness literature