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[–] GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The book The Quantum Magician makes this mistake

The protagonist has a quantum brain and to use it they have to turn off their consciousness in order to not collapse the superposition. I face palmed whenever they mentioned it

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But other then that, totally scientifically accurate.

It was trying to be hard sci-fi but... It's still a bit magical