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>If we're not talking about a human, what kind of observer are we talking about?
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I thought we were talking about entities for which an event is relevant.
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>>Back to the observer: As you said, we don't have a class definition for the observer, but we know we'll need one at some point.
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>Do we know that?
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>It seems to me that this is the question of relating mind to matter. Does mind follow from matter? Do they sit on equal footing?
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>The common view, I would guess, of anyone following along would tend to believe that mind, observation, is a result of matter doing its things; there is nothing supernatural about our minds.
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It looks like we'd have to clarify the philosophical issues first. Then we can follow to the easy part of physics, math :)
You may want to read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
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