The issue I have with the study of Quantum Mechanics is Physicists always looking for a finite "answer" to consciousness/existence. This is basically an extrapolation of the double slit experiment, where a particle changes it's "path" when projected through two slits only after being "observed".
I had this discussion with my philosophy professor in college, that the "many worlds" theory is the closest explanation for how our universe, or perceivable existence, operates. In my mind, EVERY SINGLE POSSIBLE outcome of a choice exists, and we as humans can only exist in one of these realities. I think when these Physicists measure how these protons react when observed, they don't understand they are literally seeing their own individual reality in a snapshot, like the protons are saying "you human, are HERE, and these other iterations are not perceivable in this world" because the other infinite possibilities of measurement do exist, just only observable individually in each world/choice/possibility, etc.
Basically, I believe in the many worlds theory, but in such intricacy that every single possible choice, thought, movement, moment broken down to each Planck Measurement of Time, branches off into it's own timeline of existence. And that's for EVERY POSSIBILITY in the universe, which is truly infinite (the big bang did not create the universe imo, just the existence we experience).
Basically, when they stop looking for an "answer" and understand that consciousness is not only a causality of these experiments, but THE POINT of EVERYTHING, I think so much more can be revealed.