-4- The question is: if we are internally entangled with anything else around us, by how much is our brain’s thinking process directly affecting our environment? The reverse occurs after all: our environment can affect our mental state. So, experiments were designed to test the possible effects of the observer’s consciousness, one’s mental state, directly on the state of a physical system, e.g. the outcomes of a stochastic natural process. Foundations of Quantum Theory and Consciousness