"As for Linde, he is especially interested in the mystery of consciousness and has speculated that consciousness may be a fundamental component of the universe, much like space and time. He wonders whether the physical universe, its laws, and conscious observers might form an integrated whole. A complete description of reality, he says, could require all three of those components, which he posits emerged simultaneously. “Without someone observing the universe,” he says, “the universe is actually dead.”"

I like that idea. I am reading 'the self-aware universe'. It fits nicely with that.

The universe is certainly self-aware. Through me if no other way. I am a part of it afterall.

The Spiritual Being in a Physical Day
With limited memory to find the way
To where and when
It all began.
And still is present
again and again.

Of course that brings the question of how malleable is the universe.