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This paper aims to invalidate the hypothesis that consciousness is necessaryfor the quantum measurement process. To achieve this target, I propose aconsiderable modification of the Schroedinger cat and the Dead-Alive Physicistthought experiments, called 'PIAR', short for Physicist Inside the AmbiguousRoom. A specific strategy has enabled me to plan the experiment in such a wayas to logically justify the inconsistency of the above hypothesis and to obligeits supporters to rely on an alternative interpretation of quantum mechanics inwhich the real-world phenomena exist independently of our conscious mind andwhere observers play no special role. Moreover, in my description, themeasurement apparatus will be complete, in the sense that the experiment, giventhat it includes also the experimenter, will begin and end exclusively within asealed room. Hence, my analysis provides a logical explanation of therelationship between the observer and the objects of her/his experimentalobservation; this and a few other implications are discussed in the fifthsection and the conclusions.

The Physicist Inside the Ambiguous Room: an argument against the need of consciousness in quantum mechanical measurement process