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The CI has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with consciousness. The CI view is simply "when a quantum system interacts with a measurement device, the wave function of the quantum system changes to one of some subset of real values, with a probability given by the modulus of the amplitude of that value in the wave function". Exactly what constitutes a measurement apparatus is undefined, but it certainly doesn't involve a human.

In fact, it is precisely the MWI that requires human observers for its explanations, at least to some extent, as it makes the entire notion of a classical world a fiction that only exists inside your own head because you are the one that's getting entangled with a quantum system. Any probability you compute in MWI is relative to you personally, since in MWI any possible event happens with probability 1 when checking at the universe level.



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