Quantum Mysticism

The physicist Victor Stenger replied in 1995 and 1997 that the standard interpretation 'says nothing about consciousness', only about what can be measured.

Victor J. Stenger, 'Quantum Quackery', Skeptical Inquirer 21:1 (January/February 1997), pp. 37-40; Stenger, The Unconscious Quantum (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1995)

The popular claim that quantum physics proves consciousness directly creates or alters physical reality.

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Scholarship

Victor J. Stenger, 'Quantum Quackery', Skeptical Inquirer 21:1, 1997, pp. 37-40A physicist's rebuttal: the conventional Bohr interpretation concerns only measurement and predictions, not consciousness; it cites his 1995 book The Unconscious Quantum.
says nothing about consciousness

The tradition itself

Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics (Boulder: Shambhala), 1975Capra's reading that quantum theory shows the universe as an interconnected whole and the observer as a participator, the core of the mystical reading.
Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness
Amit Goswami, The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World (New York: Putnam), 1993Goswami's monistic idealism, the claim that consciousness, not matter, is the ground of reality.
Consciousness is the ground of all being