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Originally Posted by rkomar
Consciousness being fundamental to quantum theory is one interpretation. There are other interpretations that don't require consciousness. This is a relatively busy area of quantum physics research over the last couple of decades. I am no expert in this area, but it seems that there is some move to removing observation as a necessity for measurement. It may just require another interaction to determine a "measurement".
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Interaction (with anything) collapses the wave function, not consciousness. Eg in the double slit experiment, the position of each photon is indeterminate until it interacts with the detector. When this occurs, the wave function collapses, and the photon is then is a definite place at a definite time. Consciousness has nothing to do with it, merely interaction.