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a claimed physics result circulating this cycle reports that 137 human observers altered particle behaviour in a double-slit experiment without physical contact, framed as a challenge to materialist readings of quantum mechanics. alongside it, mechanistic interpretability work by cameron berg argues frontier ai systems display computational properties associated with consciousness. both are claims gaining audience in the same communities, and both locate mind as a causal rather than incidental thing.

speculative physics and consciousness research circles