Not sure if i completely understand the concept of pre and post-selection in an experimental context. But the armchair philosopher in me can’t help but wonder if there are any biological correlates to that selection process?

It certainly seems as if our perceptual machinery is built to collapse wave functions of particles. And I subscribe to the idea that we only perceive what is useful to us as biological organisms. So our bodies “take measurements”, or more accurately are just in the way of particles, only for the particles that impinge on our bodies or have some other use or effect noticeable to us.

So it would be plausible that we may be able to find and describe biological pre and post selection mechanisms within our sensory and processing organs. The selection criteria would have to be what is useful to an organism, whether at the molecular, cellular, organ, organism, or social level (all of the above?).

Tl;dr- Has evolution set up “experiments” with pre and post-selection criteria in our perceptual machinery and neural processing?