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I'm just a physics dilettante, so if I make no sense, please forgive me.
Imagine any setup that creates macroscopic effects from quantum events. The setup is isolated from observation. Schrödinger's cat would work, but I happen to like cats so we'll just say a light either goes on or doesn't.
Now, inside the box, along with setup, is a camcorder, which will videotape whether the light goes on or doesn't. The experiment is run and the camcorder records the experiment. Without observing the light, the tape is removed and copied. The copies are moved apart a significant distance. Then, at the same time, each tape is watched by a person.
If observation by a consciousness is required to collapse the wavefunction, then, if they show the same thing like we would expect, how did the information (about whether or not the light went on) travel instantaneously between the two copies when the copies are observed simultaneously at a distance?
Imagine any setup that creates macroscopic effects from quantum events. The setup is isolated from observation. Schrödinger's cat would work, but I happen to like cats so we'll just say a light either goes on or doesn't.
Now, inside the box, along with setup, is a camcorder, which will videotape whether the light goes on or doesn't. The experiment is run and the camcorder records the experiment. Without observing the light, the tape is removed and copied. The copies are moved apart a significant distance. Then, at the same time, each tape is watched by a person.
If observation by a consciousness is required to collapse the wavefunction, then, if they show the same thing like we would expect, how did the information (about whether or not the light went on) travel instantaneously between the two copies when the copies are observed simultaneously at a distance?