The Intervention Of Consciousness In Quantum Measurement Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Edelman (1992: 214):

Such notions of physics, with their generality and predictive power, are beguiling. As powerful as they are, however, profound problems arise in understanding their application. An example comes from the theory of quantum measurement, which must be taken into account when one attempts to measure the position or momentum of a fundamental particle. In facing the paradoxes that arise from these attempts, distinguished mathematicians such as John von Neumann and equally distinguished physicists such as Eugene Wigner were tempted to propose that consciousness itself causally intervenes in the process of quantum measurement.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, in quantum measurement, the participation ('intervenes') of consciousness is not as agent ('causally'), but as the medium of a process of the mental-verbal domain that construes experience as an instance of meaning potential of the material-relational domain.