I dont think Heisenberg Principle and Schroedinger cat are related.

Here is my layman explanation of Uncertainty Principle.

Imagine a billiard ball rolling across the width of a billiard table. Now we shoot a few other balls from the bottom cushion.

top cushion
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<------ direction of target ball

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^ ^ ^ ^ ^

shoot balls to hit target ball

The balls that do not hit the target end up at the top cushion. There will be a single ball that hits the target and also end up somewhere at the top cushion. By measuring the position of the shooting balls and the time it takes to reach the top cushion, we can calculate the position and momentum of the target ball.

The only way to measure position and momemtum is to hit the ball with something and observe the effect, and this very act affects both.

Hope this is a valid way of explaining. Do correct me if otherwise. Please note that there is something called "quantum memory" which has been proposed to overcome the Uncertainty Principle.

You are quite right. I 'm just trying to explain it in a simple to understand way

If "consciousness causes collapse" then we need to understand more about consciousness to understand the universe around us. So what was the universe and how did it behave before the first consious mind appeared?