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Re:Electrons May Well Be Conscious by TeMPOraL on Monday May 18, 2020 @08:14AM (#23221339)
Indeed. Measurement is a physical process, not metaphysical one. To measure something, you necessarily need to interact with it (and at this point it's worth remembering that photons bouncing off an object and hitting your retinas absolutely count as interaction, so you can't e.g. put a ruler next to the dog and read out the results, and say you weren't interacting with it, not in the sense physicists use this word).
Re:Electrons May Well Be Conscious by SteveJS on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:44AM (#23222192)
How does that explain the quantum eraser experiment?

a photon that has been "marked" and then "unmarked" will interfere with itself and produce the fringes characteristic of Young's experiment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_eraser_experiment

Re:Electrons May Well Be Conscious by TeMPOraL on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:59AM (#23222377)
Did you mean to reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23221433? I don't see how QEE is incompatible with the notion that measuring something necessitates interacting with it. Photons are usually measured by absorbing them and turning into electricity.