A Request for a review of a paper on consciousness creating reality.

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The paper I refer to, I found on the Big Think blog titled "Is human consciousness creating reality? And here is the actual link to the paper. Unfortunately, this paper is too technical for me, hence the request for a review for such a big claim.

 
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Emmanuel Pil said:
request for a review
What do you mean by "review"? PF is not a journal and we don't do peer reviews of papers here.

If you are asking whether the claims in the paper are valid, the paper is in an area of very active research in which no claims are even testable by experiment at this point, let alone established. So the only possible answer to the question of whether the paper's claims are valid is "it's way too early to tell".
 
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Emmanuel Pil said:
the Big Think blog titled "Is human consciousness creating reality?
I'm not sure the blog post's title is justified by the claims of the actual paper. So if what you want is a review of the blog post's claims, as opposed to the claims of the actual paper I would say they're not justified. Which is not at all unusual for blog posts talking about research at the frontiers of science.
 
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The actual paper is not about consciousness at all. It uses the "c" word only once, in an appendix, under quotation marks.
 
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