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No they don't. Or, maybe, depending on what you mean by "observed". A consciousness doesn't have to be involved in any case.
Double slit experiment?
"observing" means interacting with.
Of course interacting with something changes how it behaves. It's in the name.
Still works if the electron is a wave the whole time. You just get a detector and a physicist in multiple states as well. That's the multiple worlds interpretation.
There's a bunch of other models, like collapse existing, but being caused by size or gravity. Collapse by consciousness is a "possibility" really only pseudoscientists are selling. I think OP mentioned Chopra.