Roger Penrose

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It could be there's something else, of course, that we don't know in physics, but that seems to be an important gap.

And

Collapse of the wave function.

You see.

Many people

Including Wigner, you see, I remember talking to Vigner when I was in Princeton.

And uh

I remember I had dinner with him and Yes.

Discussing this question with him, because one of the views attributed to Wigner

was that it's the conscious being observing the quantum system which collapses the wave function.

So it requires consciousness

Um, to make the collapse work.

My I talked to him a bit, and he was not so dogmatic as people tend to think about this.

He said that was a view that he played with and

Thought it was a possibility.

I didn't think it was at all likely for all sorts of reasons.

Seems to me that they could

I had this argument about a

A distant planet, which is an Earth like planet,

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