You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

iarwain1 comments on Stupid questions thread, October 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: philh 13 October 2015 07:39PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (223)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: iarwain1 15 October 2015 03:41:22PM 0 points [-]

Is it still somewhat controversial? Meaning, are there respected physicists who think that conscious observers do magically cause things to happen?

Comment author: shminux 17 October 2015 04:23:09PM 2 points [-]

Roger Penrose is very respected.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 18 October 2015 10:33:48AM 0 points [-]

But "conscious observers do magically cause things to happen" isn't a good description of his hypothesis.