Arouet
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Well I am not saying that it is the case, but I could imagine a scenario where under anesthesia information is not integrated into a single experience that we recognize as waking conscious experience, but there could be conscious experience either within sub complexes or even down to cells themselves that remain since the person is still alive. If conscious experience is collapse of the wave function, and cells can do this, then perhaps in the described experiment the woman's waking consciousness would not be needed to collapse, but her sub complexes or cells could do it.
This experiment deals with macro objects. Does collapse of the wave function play a major role here? I thought it didn't, which is why classical physics gives us a pretty good description.