prase comments on A note on the description complexity of physical theories - Less Wrong

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Comment author: prase 10 November 2010 11:26:37PM 0 points [-]

what does prase::Copenhagen say an observer is?

prase::Copenhagen::observer is probably a fundamental entity, not definable without use of "observe", "observable" or perhaps "consciousness". (In fact, prase::Copenhagen doesn't necessarily imply that the collapse is real rather than an effective practical way how to describe reality; the above holds for those variants of Copenhagen which insist on the existence of an objective collapse.)