I agree, however you have to keep in mind that the Copenhagen interpretation [1] was invented before Vitalism [2] was debunked. So it is not too surprising that

I agree, however you have to keep in mind that the Copenhagen interpretation [1] was invented before Vitalism [2] was debunked. So it is not too surprising that it also has this idea of a fundamental difference between the rules guiding living (including conscious) and dead matter at its core. My usual argument against it is the mediocrity principle [3], we humans often fail to accept the insignificance of our existence. Thus, we tend to prefer theories which tell us that we are special. Just like the idea that we are able to trigger the collapse of the wave-function and the superposition, but a cat is not. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalism 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediocrity_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediocrity_principle