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Historically, many physicists, including Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr, have engaged with the concept of wave function collapse. They espoused the idea that this process is a crucial element of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory. Yet the question remained: where and how does this collapse occur? Is it a reflection of consciousness, as proposed by thinkers like John von Neumann and Eugene Wigner, or is it merely a convenient fiction, as suggested by Hugh Everett’s Many Worlds interpretation?