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Originally posted by @apathistNo. The idea that something doesn't exist without conscious mind observing it is just an old superfluous erroneous nonsense metaphysical interpretation of quantum physics that, contrary to popular belief, isn't part quantum physics itself.
All my dogs were sentient. That what you mean?
(read
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%E2%80%93Wigner_interpretation
including the "Objections to the interpretation" part
if you want a better idea what I am talking about)
Quantum effects become progressively more difficult as you try and observe them at larger and larger scales as a whole until they become impossible to observe on the scale of, say, the size of a typical whole dog. That is why your dog must be tiny (just a few cubic nanometers max) for there to be a credible chance for you to observe them in your dog as a whole.
Originally posted by @humyI do know about the von neumann thing, why the view exists and why it is wrong.
No. The idea that something doesn't exist without conscious mind observing it is just an old superfluous erroneous nonsense metaphysical interpretation of quantum physics that, contrary to popular belief, isn't part quantum physics itself.
(read
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%E2%80%93Wigner_interpretation
including the "Objections to the interpretat ...[text shortened]... ic nanometers max) for there to be a credible chance for you to observe them in your dog as a whole.
At the level of a dog, we don't see quantum effects. That doesn't mean they aren't there. Signal/noise thing, may be?