[Cboldt]

-- which is why I am hesitant to believe that electrons have some kind of "intelligence", or hocus-pocus, to detect observation and behave accordingly. --

No individual particle (or photon, or unit of other form of electromagnetic radiation) does. The observed patterns are the result of probability, played out over millions of discrete events.

[James C. Bennett]

True, and even the observed anomalies are due to the inherent failings of recordable statistics.