The Superposition of Neville’s Brain also known as Wigner’s Friend
Lynden Stone
Oil on canvas and board, electrical wires, metal box, portable media player, video (8:35min) Wall art
Eugene Wigner entertained the possibility that consciousness might be the active agent to collapse quantum superposition into the singular reality we experience. But at what point does superposition collapse? Wigner’s thought experiment, now known as Wigner’s friend, argued against ever increasing systems of superposition. He thought it was the first conscious observer who collapsed superposition.