Von Neumann did not claim that consciousness causes the collapse of the quantum state; later literature misattributed that view to him, and the primary text shows him as agnostic on the collapse mechanism.
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Between Myth and History: von Neumann on Consciousness in Quantum Mechanics
Von Neumann did not claim that consciousness causes the collapse of the quantum state; later literature misattributed that view to him, and the primary text shows him as agnostic on the collapse mechanism.