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[โ€“] halvar@lemy.lol 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not very well versed in this topic but as far as I know this is only one of the explainations. There are also explanations that think observation itself, in a literal sense is what's special and not the way we measure things.

[โ€“] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, but you have to define "observation".