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“It turns out that thought experiments can be designed whereby textbook quantum mechanics violates the assumption of LF.”
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“LF inequalities bound what observed outcome statistics are possible for Alice and Bob when LF holds [3].”
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“In [3], the authors performed an experiment with a specific instance of the EWFS and derived specific LF inequalities that were experimentally violated.”
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“Local Friendliness comes from the conjunction of two basic assumptions about reality [3,5].”
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“Quantum mechanics indicates that it should, in principle, be possible to violate these LF inequalities.”
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“This operator balances the contributions of the soul and physical realm in the decision-making process (Wigner, 1995).”
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Parrochia, D. (2019) · arXiv (Cornell University) · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1906.10172
“Should we think, as Wigner seems to believe ([Wig 95], that consciousness plays a special irreducible role in Quantum Mechanics? But how to explain the difference of appreciation of the two observers? Indeed, as long as Wigner did not open the laboratory door, the whole laboratory is, for him, in a state superposition…”
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“In Wigner’s scenario,[47] Wigner’s friend (F ) performs a measurement on a system S using an apparatus A.”
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Auletta, G. (2019) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-16649-6_3
Batard, T. (2019) · arXiv (Cornell University) · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1908.07338
“swer, ‘I told you already, I did [did not] see a flash,’ as the case may be. In other words, the question whether he did or did not see the flash was already decided in his mind, before I asked him” (Wigner 1967). Consequently, for a while—however long that may be—there is a “contradiction” [sic] between what is a fac…”
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“In a paper entitled “Remarks on the Mind-body Question” [1], published in 1961, E.”
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Syros, C. (2020) · HNPS Advances in Nuclear Physics · doi:10.12681/hnps.2797
Mind–Body Interaction and Modern Physics
Anastopoulos, C. (2021) · Foundations of Physics · doi:10.1007/s10701-021-00472-7
“Von Neumann and Wigner proposed that the quantum/classical split and the body/mind split coincide: the quantum state is reduced when the result of a measurement enters the observer’s consciousness [53, 54].”
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Walton, Z., McNamara, B. S., & Toffoli, T. (2020) · arXiv (Cornell University) · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2004.12052
“the Wigner’s friend thought experiment, in which Alice is performing experiments on a qubit, and Bob has coherent control over the joint system of Alice and the qubit [8].”
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“In a famous Gedankenexperiment [24], Wigner (W) asks us to imagine a hermetically sealed laboratory containing a scientist (the eponymous ‘Friend’ F) carrying out a Schrödinger’s cat-type experiment.”
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“Advanced AI and photon paths or photonic memories have been suggested to represent the human observer and microscopic and macroscopic (observer) systems are treated as quantum mechanically equal [9] [11] [12] [17].”
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Varshovi, A. A. (2020) · arXiv (Cornell University) · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2011.13928
“At the first glance, one should note that ascribing any separating characteristic to a group of specific real worlds and their inhabitants, is theoretically equivalent to append a consciousness-like attribute to the sentient beings who accomplish measurements in the Winger-von Neumann interpretation of wave collapse […”
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Morita, K. (2021) · arXiv (Cornell University) · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2101.01894
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Theurel, D. (2021) · arXiv (Cornell University)
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“In 1956, Eugene Wigner modified the Schrödinger parable to include more characters [8].”
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“In a famous Gedankenexperiment [24], Wigner (W) asks us to imagine a hermetically sealed laboratory containing a scientist (the eponymous ‘Friend’ F) carrying out a Schrödinger’s cat-type experiment.”
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Is there a classical model of Wigner's friend?Preprint
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“(3) These states are supposed to show “contradicting predictions”, where “‘contradicting predictions’ refers to the fact that Wigner’s and the friend’s descriptions give different predictions for the possible outcomes of Wigner’s entangled measurement” [1].”
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“Uma das soluções é dizer que a consciência de observadores humanos causa a transição de soma de estados para estados únicos (cf. WIGNER, 1983); com isso, o problema mente-corpo entra em cena: como podemos entender a interação entre as consciências causais postuladas por certas posturas na filosofia…”
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“Other considerations on this subject can be found in Aerts et al. 1993, Aerts and Aerts 1994, Atmanspacher 2014, Atmanspacher and Filck 2006, 2010, 2013, Atmanspacher and Fach 2013, Filck and von Müller 2009, Tononi and Koch 2015, Wigner 1967, 1977 etc.”
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A classical resolution of the cosmological constant problem
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On the significance of Wigner's Friend in contexts beyond quantum foundations
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“In 1961, Eugene Wigner introduced his now famous thought experiment [1], illustrating an important subtlety of what is usually called the quantum measurement problem [2,3].”
Wishful Thinking About Consciousness
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الكون بين ذاتية التكوين المعرفي واستقلاله
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Logic Meets Wigner’s Friend (and their Friends)
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“This assumption captures ‘the universal validity of quantum the-ory’.”
The Hyper-Torus Universe Model—A New Paradigm for Understanding RealityPreprint
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The Hyper-Torus Universe Model—A New Paradigm for Understanding RealityPreprint
McCammon, C. R. (2024) · Preprints.org · doi:10.20944/preprints202406.0674.v4
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The Hyper-Torus Universe Model - A New Paradigm for Understanding RealityPreprint
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Schrodinger’s Cat and Wigner’s Friend
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Ultradecoherence Model of the Measurement Process
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On the Localizability Problem of relativistic quantum systems
de Oliveira, I. R. (2024) · doi:10.11606/t.43.2024.tde-19112024-110642
Achronotopic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Bianchi, S. D., & Szapudi, I. (2024) · Foundations of Physics · doi:10.1007/s10701-024-00815-0
“The classic quantum operators representing measurement operators are the sum of 12 Note here that one could endorse a perspectivalist view and further elaborate on the fact that what is “real” in a portion of the world endowed of a certain four-dimensional structure can be seen as an “llusion” when…”
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Möckli, D., & Perraro, L. S. (2025) · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical · doi:10.1088/1751-8121/ada74a
“The concept originates from Wigner’s friend thought experiment [26] where a quantum agent (typically represented by Wigner’s friend) refers to a quantum system capable of observing another quantum system through a unitary interaction, while simultaneously being subject to observation by an external…”
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Adlam, E. (2025) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/9780197808887.003.0013
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Adlam, E. (2025) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/9780197808887.003.0011
Superdeterminism and Naturalness
Adlam, E. (2025) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/9780197808887.003.0012
Observer-Relative Interpretations
Adlam, E. (2025) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/9780197808887.003.0009
Adlam, E. (2025) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/9780197808887.003.0008
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Adlam, E. (2025) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/9780197808887.003.0006
Adlam, E. (2025) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/9780197808887.003.0007
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Adlam, E. (2025) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/9780197808887.003.0014
Adlam, E. (2025) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/9780197808887.003.0001
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Self-citationHuman Personality in East-West Perspectives
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Experimentos mentales como cuasi-teoremas de imposibilidad.
Barroso, V. E. G. (2026) · Teorema: Revista internacional de filosofía · doi:10.30827/trif.34859
“Un ejemplo paradigmático de este tipo de estructura es el experimento prop-uesto por Frauchiger y Renner (2018), una generalización del experimento clásico del Amigo de Wigner (1985, 1995).”
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“In particular, it is not a variant of the Wigner-von Neumann reading of the Copenhagen interpretation, in which the collapse of the wave function is tied to conscious observation in the sense of Wigner’s classic reflections on the mind-body problem (Wigner 1995; von Neumann 1932).”
Quantum Mechanics, Computers, and the Mind
Glass, D. H., & McCartney, M. (2007) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-1-84628-943-9_6
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- Authors
- Wigner, E. P.
- Corresponding author
- Wigner, E. P.
- Venue
- Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Published
- 1995
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- 247-260
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- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy of Biology and Scientific Explanation
- Social Sciences › Psychology › General Psychology › Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
- Keywords
- mind-body problem, consciousness, philosophy of mind, scientific inquiry, physicalism, nature of mind
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