Where’s the Wave Collapser?

This little video illustrates one of the big confounding questions in physics. The question is how to understand the role of conscious observation in resolving a quantum state. The problem has been around for a long time, and Erwin Schrödinger came up with this famous illustration to highlight the question. Towards the end, the video describes a higher-level perspective about the question.The thing is, it seems the external observer would also be in an indeterminate state, and so on, for any observer in the universe. Perhaps this points to the existence of an observer external to our universe.

Now I’m not a physicist, but it seems that pondering such questions leads one to conclude there are fundamental things about our universe that are unknown. Regarding this question in particular, how can one develop a coherent point of view concerning deity without having some consistent perspective about an ultimate observer?

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