Quantum Physics - Is Consciousness the Threshold?

Avciand i certainly don't think that i've ever looked at the outcome of an experiment and thought, oh, that went both of the two mutually contradictory ways that it could go. A conscious observer observing something doesn't necessarily make the wave function collapse, isn't that right? Yes, with an asterisk. But there are other reasons to think that consciousness is probably not what's going on here. And if it does collapse, it seems like it must have been collapsing for billions of years before we showed up.