Does the copenhagen interpretation actually require the observer to be conscious rather than, say, a macroscopic measuring instrument? Indeed the wiki article

Does the copenhagen interpretation actually require the observer to be conscious rather than, say, a macroscopic measuring instrument? Indeed the wiki article you link to says: > Although the Copenhagen interpretation is often confused with the idea that consciousness causes collapse, it defines an "observer" merely as that which collapses the wave function. Which seems like a very practical, albeit obviously incomplete, approach to take.