Bear with me here as I try something...
The idea is basically that it takes a consciousness to form a model, and
consciousness to do something with that model, which will have some
transformative effect in material reality in a probable way as
determined by the model. So like with the double slit experiment, nature
doesn't care if the photon goes through the left slit or the right slit
until you observe it, and then you get really weird effects like
entanglement where you can couple particles and control the state one
particle is in by controlling the state of the other particle - thus
controlling whether the particle goes thru the left or right slit. This
gets weirder in that we can couple fundamentally different systems
together and still transfer quantum information. Here's an example of a
trillion oscillating rubidium atoms coupled with a photon in 12
dimensions: https://www.osapublishing.org/optica/abstract.cfm?uri=optica-4-2-272
Now - and this is really important - the way Schrodinger defined
entanglement was: "When two systems, of which we know the states by
their respective representatives, enter into temporary physical
interaction due to known forces between them, and when after a time of
mutual influence the systems separate again, then they can no longer be
described in the same way as before, viz. by endowing each of them with a
representative of its own. I would not call that one but rather THE
characteristic trait of quantum mechanics, the one that enforces its
entire departure from classical lines of thought. By the interaction the
two representatives [the quantum states] have become entangled."
When generalized systems are coupled they form a new whole, and wholes
are where the quantum effects happen. You starting to see what I'm
saying? We make the assumption that consciousness, while it may be a bag
of tricks, emerges as a whole - the "I." The suspicion is then that we,
too, are entangled all the time with the world around us in many ways,
thus granting us "spooky action at a distance." And entanglement
logically has to happen all the time everywhere in nature by
Schrodinger's definition. This allows "consciousness" to be a force on
its own, the pure coupling or connecting force in a sense, as nature
somehow creates its vast interdependent network of very definable
physical systems as they co-mingle and sync up or break apart in very
definite, diverse, and layered ways - all emerging from the pure energy
soup of the big bang. Yes those systems are abstract contrivances in the
end but we get real powers with them ala technology. People consider
words themselves one of the first human technologies. It's definitely a
factual statement to say we do not understand all the systems we
inhabit, whether on the most massive cosmological scales or near the
planck scale, but also in daily social and psychological life. The only thing that comes close to explaining systems is thermodynamics, and that's some zen shit if you ask me.
I'm not saying this is the truth of reality but it's where the logic can
take you and is very influential historically. You have to make some
giant leaps from the actual math and observations to get to these
conclusions, but honestly even the foundational scientists like Einstein
and even Newton believed things like this. Gnosticism/Hermeticism,
Buddhism or Taoism or what the Yamabushis of Japan talk about contain
probably the closest allegories, and they're pretty legit schools of
thought from where I'm standing.
