The double-slit experiment keeps challenging my intuition about physics, and I suspect most popular explanations mislead us. We teach that a photon 'chooses' a path only when observed, but observation is just interaction with a measuring device—so why do we frame it as consciousness? I think the real lesson is that particles don't have definite properties until entanglement with the environment, not that human minds alter reality. Am I wrong to reject the observer-effect interpretation?