IMHO IBM are wasting their time. Schrodinger's cat has some people believing that the cat will exist in all states until observed. But the observation is any *measurement* so does not have to be human observation. Imagine a machine makes the measurement and stores the result on a hard disk. Does this mean that the cat is both alive and dead until a human reads the disk in 2000 years? I prefer the interpretation of Bohm: the wave function is collapsed when it comes into contact with a macroscopic object. In that case, the IBM Brain Interface's components would already entangle and collapse any quantum effect making it unsensitive to any but the mind of tired IBM staff dreaming of their yesterday robot empire of control.
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IMHO IBM are wasting their time. Schrodinger's cat has some people believing that the cat will exist in all states until observed. But the observation is any *measurement* so does not have to be human observation. Imagine a machine makes the measurement and stores the result on a hard disk. Does this mean that the cat is both alive and dead until a human reads the disk in 2000 years? I prefer the interpretation of Bohm: the wave function is collapsed when it comes into contact with a macroscopic object. In that case, the IBM Brain Interface's components would already entangle and collapse any quantum effect making it unsensitive to any but the mind of tired IBM staff dreaming of their yesterday robot empire of control.