Wolfson enacts this realist impulse quite explicitly in A Dream Interpreted within a Dream, where he puts kabbalistic dream interpretation into conversation with the speculative reaches of quantum mechanics in order to demonstrate how the construal of meaning in the dream is brought into being or actualized through attention, intention, consciousness, and the act of dream interpretation itself, much as the act of observation is said to “collapse the wave function” in one interpretation of the quantum mechanical experiment. It is simply not possible to extricate the presence of consciousness
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