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""Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else."

Erwin Schrödinger, quantum physicist 1871-1961

At around 1920 quantum physics was still a haphazard collection of intelligent ad hoc hypotheses without a solid mathematical connected framework. Compared to the elegancy and robustness of Newtonian physics this was - and is still - highly unsatisfactory and even unpalatable for most physicists. The exact predictability of nature proved to be a mirage, uncertainty of measurement turned out to be a fundamental aspect of nature.

Young's double-slit experiment, that had convincingly demonstrated light's wave character would become the unquestionable testimony of the seemingly incompatible dual nature of the fundamental elements of physical reality. Solid looking particles were found to exhibit wave behavior including interference.

The quantum wave that was at first thought to be a spatially spread out physical particle, was soon acknowledged as a more or less non-material possibility wave. The why and how of the abrupt change of the quantum wave into the measured physical particle, turned out to become the hottest debated subject between quantum physicists. A plethora of interpretations - some even connecting the consciousness of the observer with the observed quantum phenomena - proliferated.