What else happens if the conscious observer collapses the quantum wave function?

I still haven't told you what happens if the conscious observer collapses the quantum wave function so that matter can exist.

It means the conscious observer exists prior to the existence of matter.

Therefore consciousness does not arise as a result of matter.

If anti realism were correct, and nothing can meaningfully be said to exist unless it is observed by a conscious human being, then most of our commonsense beliefs and most of science itself - such as the sciences of cosmology (to do with the Big Bang theory of the origins of the universe) and evolutionary theory (to do with the origins of the human species) - would have to be rejected.

Sciences that have to do with pre-human states of the universe would have to be rejected as false or even nonsensical.

Ray Bradley
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy,
Simon Fraser University

It also means that consciousness can exist in a state free of physical existence.

Buddhism - Skhism - Hinduism
Nirvana - Nirvana is a state free from samsra.
Samsra - Samasra is the state of continous reincarnation and rebirth in a physical form.

Hinduism
Worn-out garments are shed by the body; Worn-out bodies are shed by the dweller within the body. New bodies are donned by the dweller, like garments. (Verse 2:22)

Taoism
"Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation."

Continued in What if the quantum wave function collapsed down to a different position?

Notes from the Editor
Not as compelling as I would have liked it to be but points that I needed to make.