Yes, unquestionably Gaia is an intrinsic factor here, that makes total sense, there's no way that wouldn't form the bigger picture.Posted by Jayke (here)
I think we often get wrapped up in the power of our own consciousness to create reality, that we forget that what we perceive to be inert matter is actually pregnant with consciousness itself. Surely Gaia has a say in the unfoldment of her own creation? she'd still be creating new lifeforms regardless of whether human consciousness was wiped off the earth.
And doesn't the cat in schrodingers box have its own consciousness, I doubt it would be too happy about us collapsing it into a wave just because we aren't thinking about it.
In the example you've outlined regarding the cat, the wave function as a collapsed potential is simply the cat refusing to have its living presence observed as part of the cooperation of consciousness with the human observer. It would do this by withdrawing sufficient of its consciousness for no cat to be registered, in effect no living cat, knowing full well that its total consciousness registers in another probability of the wave function.
The cat is simply sensing the required outcome and being compliant with it.
So yes, the cat is an intrinsic and active participant to the observed outcome.