We're veering away from physics here, but isn't consciousness actually quite "magical". It's beyond remarkable to me that stimulating nervous tissue, composed of quite mundane things like protons and electrons, yields a subjective experience. I know many people reject the hard problem of consciousness, but to those who don't, the implications of thought experiments like Wigner's friend, like superpositions or entanglement of subjective experiences, are truly paradoxical. You are calling certain viewpoints obviously wrong or false because you adhere to certain philosophical viewpoints. There's nothing wrong with that, and they're all justifiable, but none of them are complete consensus among philosophers.
Coming back to physics, there's an assumption you and other commenters are silently making, which is that quantum mechanics is even applicable to macroscopic objects like humans. The largest objects which have been shown to act wave-like are a few thousand atoms large. While it's indisputable that at the lowest level the universe is fundamentally quantum mechanical, it's a little brazen to extrapolate that over more than 20 orders of magnitude. As a physicist myself, I'll believe it when I see it, and I'm looking forward to getting results from proposed experiments like FELIX and its successors.
Coming back to physics, there's an assumption you and other commenters are silently making, which is that quantum mechanics is even applicable to macroscopic objects like humans. The largest objects which have been shown to act wave-like are a few thousand atoms large. While it's indisputable that at the lowest level the universe is fundamentally quantum mechanical, it's a little brazen to extrapolate that over more than 20 orders of magnitude. As a physicist myself, I'll believe it when I see it, and I'm looking forward to getting results from proposed experiments like FELIX and its successors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-orbit_experiment_with_las...