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John Archibald Wheeler

physicist · 6 mentions across 1 reading

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Wheeler appears here primarily through his famous double-slit experiment, which frames a speculative question about consciousness and observation that bridges quantum mechanics with altered states—whether schizophrenics or spiritually-attuned observers might collapse quantum wavefunctions differently. The course readings use Wheeler's thought experiment to trouble the boundary between physical measurement and subjective perception, enabling a countercultural 1960s-70s conflation of quantum indeterminacy with mystical or psychiatric consciousness that prefigures contemporary AI debates about observer effects and machine perception.

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Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0 — ATEK-639/439 — Fall 2025