I have neither the math nor the physics background to attempt to explain any of this, though the nature of the cosmos at the quantum level has fascinated me for most of my life. If, as some posit, consciousness itself is a quantum phenomenon, it would seem only reasonable that observation itself affects the action of the particle in question; just as it may the fate of Schrodinger's cat. Some theories of the universe now describe more dimensions than the four we are physically equipped to perceive. Such effects as Einstein's "spooky action at a distance" might well be better understood in such a worldview. I think that, as advanced as we consider ourselves to be, perhaps we don't know as much as we think we do. It may be not what we know, but what we don't know, that defines us.