Lost In Space-Time

This evening I've been caught up in the early-week ritual of watching re-runs of the late-seventies series "The Secret Army" [Google it if you're too young to remember it], which is, for someone of my generation, a bit of a guaranteed time-waster, as it is so compulsive. Whatever. Before settling down to watch the umpteen episodes in tonight's linear binge-feed, I was re-watching an interview on YouTube with Professor Sir Roger Penrose, regarding [particularly] his thoughts on the rôle of the 'observer' in the collapse the of the wave function in quantum mechanics. As you do. He, I think quite reasonably, argues that the notion of a simple observation of a quantum superposition of states by a 'consciousness' leads to that collapse is actually pretty daft. But the counter thought experiment that he uses is also basically flawed in my book: he uses the photographic medium as the intermediary recorded state of the quantum superposition, positing that it itself would record the superposition in its entirety. I would have thought that given that the photographic process, either chemical or digital, existing at its heart within the quantum domain itself, would de facto collapse the wave function itself, recording only one state at any given moment in time. And, it seems to me that consciousness, if an accident in and of itself of quantum state-changes, logically subsists in all matter, including a photograph. Just a thought...