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An Inquiry Into Consciousness Its Relationship to Experience and to Experiment by Ross Rhodes
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Introduction and Credo Sheer cussedness: the Essence of Free Will |
I believe that I can make a decision, a choice. |
| 1.1 Self measurement | I believe that inanimate matter cannot make a decision, a choice. |
| 2.0 The measurement problem in QM | |
| 2.1 Commentary: Rosenblum and Kuttner's analysis of free choice as an element of the double slit experiment. | Do the experimental results themselves demand a role for free choice? A commentary on a recent "theory-neutral" presentation of the measurement problem. |
| 3.0 Experimental evidence | |
| 3.1 Tests | |
| 3.1.1 A test for the presence of consciousness? Wouldn't it be nice. | We begin with the observation that the measuring device at the slit had no apparent effect on the result of the experiment, because the result varied depending on whether a different element was included in the overall measurement. So, how come the observer seems to "fix" the results of the experiment in a way that the mechanical device does not? |