Warning: The following may sound like mumbo-jumbo until you've finished reading. As someone in another comment here mentioned, the last time something that was

Warning: The following may sound like mumbo-jumbo until you've finished reading. As someone in another comment here mentioned, the last time something that was not understood was nigh declared magic and unphysical or ignored even by educated men was in the 17th century, and the phenomenon was light. If you accept panpsychism, the idea that consciousness is not limited to brains (examples: i feel and react to pain but my dog reacts to pain as well, and even certain trees are now known to release signal chemicals into the soil which cause nearby trees to harden their bark when they are damaged), and also accept that consciousness is a field/fundamental force that couples(interacts) with the other fields, and with matter, it becomes plausible to say that an interaction between two particles will also cause an interaction with the 'consciousness field'. Of course all of this is complete speculation because it seems to be impossible to measure the properties of said field, as the proposed interaction would be one-way (examples: when i burn my hand with scalding hot water, a circuit in my brain/body which relies on known forces and interactions causes my hand to move away, yet i feel pain). I don't see how wave function collapse, which has frequently been mentioned in connection with this, could be related, as it's not even known what wave function collapse actually is, much like our current problem with consciousness. Disclaimer: IAAP