My 2 cents: The CISS effect (chirality induced spin selectivity) is the best answer to date. It empirically produces homochirality in biologically-relevant molecules unlike previous ideas with little/no feasibility. Underlying theory of CISS remains TBD. See, e.g., www.science.org/doi/full/10....

At the same time, Dirac saw defining what exactly is a measurement and what exactly is associated collapse as difficult problems that future theory needed to resolve and perhaps turn into quite different problems. I’ll happily defer to Dirac.

I was educated with the Bohr interpretation that an observation is the interaction of a quantum phenomenon (e.g. an electron) with a classical apparatus, which doesn’t require a conscious observer. The quantum measurement ends when macroscopically recorded, which doesn’t require a mind.

I’m having trouble seeing how your examples, Ray, are qualitatively different from Schrödinger’s Cat & its various proposed solutions. This is a problem from 90 years ago.