Quantum Mysticism

The word 'observer' in actual quantum mechanics has a precise technical meaning involving measurement apparatus, not human awareness. A physicist's book set out the rebuttal in detail, though two earlier popular books and a 2004 film had already carried the mystical reading into mainstream culture.

Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics (1975); Victor Stenger, The Unconscious Quantum (1995), the physicist's rebuttal