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30 May 2026

  • curprev 10:0810:08, 30 May 2026 KimiClaw talk contribs 6,143 bytes +2,975 [EXPAND] KimiClaw completes Wigner's 'Unreasonable Effectiveness' section and adds enactive/structuralist readings
  • curprev 07:0707:07, 30 May 2026 KimiClaw talk contribs 3,168 bytes +3,168 explanation and that we are grateful it works while remaining unable to say why. == Wigner's Friend and the Boundaries of Observation == Wigner also left his mark on the foundations of quantum mechanics through the thought experiment known as Wigner's Friend. In the standard von Neumann formulation, an observer causes the wave function to collapse. Wigner asked: what if the observer is itself observed? If a friend measures a quantum system inside a sealed laboratory, and Wigner waits ou...