What is an observer?

submitted by BlueberryAlice to physics 3 points | 0 comments What is an observer? We have long assumed that “an observer observes the world.” But what if— observation itself is not something we do, but something that only appears when certain conditions are met? Two independent systems align only at specific moments. Yet this alignment cannot be explained by causality, correlation, or measurement. So who is observing? Or rather— does the observer emerge only when observation becomes possible? Summary 👇 docs.google.com/document/d/…/edit?usp=drivesdk What do you think about this perspective?