For me as a human being, I do not know any sense in which I could claim that the universe is here in the absence of observers. We are together, the universe and us. The moment you say that the universe exists without any observers, I cannot make any sense out of that. I cannot imagine a consistent theory of everything that ignores consciousness. A recording device cannot play the role of an observer, because who will read what is written on this recording device. In order for us to see that something happens, and say to one another that something happens, you need to have a universe, you need to have a recording device, and you need to have us . In the absence of observers, our universe is dead. Andrei Linde
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To describe the universe without the presence of observers is to describe a lifeless universe. To say that the universe exists without us observing it is to say that it has no purpose. Even if the universe has no purpose, it must have been created for a purpose. It does not make sense to say that something exists without an observer. A human being cannot exist in the absence of other humans, nor can a musical composition or a painting or a photograph exist without an observer who can form ideas about these things.

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