Well, it seems like god actually does play dice.

I also suspect that consciousness is fundamental

I always hate how people misinterpret the whole probability thing in quantum mechanics, or think that Schrödinger's Cat was meant to prove something rather than the fact that it was to show the ridiculousness of some of Heisenberg's work, among others.

The real issue is that the act of observing a quantum particle in any way that a human or their machines could possibly observe them necessarily alters the state of that particle in some way. It's like if the only way you could detect how far away a bullet sitting on the ground was from you was to fire another bullet at it and have it reflected back. Obviously whatever reading that were to give you is now no longer correct, the bullet has been moved by the detection bullet and possibly some other characteristics have changed. So you only do real detection at the moment you need to and realize that value is only valid in that moment and for everything else you use probabilities.

Of course an oversimplification, but pretending there's something surreal and supernatural about quantum mechanics is just silly.

In school, I grasped chemistry with such clarity that other students would come to me for help but physics has always been impossibly difficult to make sense of.