Can a Non-Conscious Agent Collapse the Quantum State?
A Triple-Layer Protocol for Young’s Double-Slit Experiment
This repository contains the paper “Latent Measurement: A Triple-Layer Protocol for Young’s Double-Slit Experiment”, a conceptual and experimentally feasible proposal in the foundations of quantum mechanics.
The central question is simple but deep: is physical interaction and automatic recording enough to destroy interference, or could conscious observation still play an additional role in quantum measurement?
To explore this, the work proposes a triple-layer protocol built around Young’s double-slit experiment. The measurement chain is separated into three successive agents:
- Robot 1 (R1): executes the experiment and records the results
- Robot 2 (R2): examines and copies the records
- Human observer (H): inspects the records only at the final stage
This structure is designed to separate, as clearly as possible, four layers that are often mixed together in discussions of quantum measurement:
- Physical interaction
- Record
- Processing
- Conscious interpretation
The PDF develops the full protocol and explains:
- the conceptual motivation behind the experiment
- the decomposition of the act of measurement into layers
- the two operating modes of the protocol
- the primary observable used to evaluate the outcome, namely interference visibility
- the contrast between standard decoherence and the strong von Neumann–Wigner hypothesis
- the connection with the concept of Latent Structural Causality (LSC)
- possible sources of inherited bias in robotic execution
- and the practical feasibility of implementing the setup with current technology
The paper does not claim to solve the measurement problem in its entirety. Its scope is narrower and more precise: it aims to provide an operational framework for testing whether physical interaction and automatic registration are sufficient for the loss of interference, or whether conscious access could add any observable effect.
This repository includes the paper in both languages:
- English version
- Spanish version
It may also include updated versions, figures, and supporting material related to the protocol.
The repository may include a stylised generated figure intended as a visual provocation addressed specifically to senior executives and decision-makers in AI and robotics companies. It is not part of the scientific argument itself, but an invitation to leading organisations in those fields to take the experimental challenge seriously.
The official archived version of this work is available on Zenodo:
https://zenodo.org/records/19584744
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Latent Measurement: A Triple-Layer Protocol for Young’s Double-Slit Experiment
Zenodo, 2026
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19584744
This repository is released under the MIT License.
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