[birdsongs]

I mean, we are as much a part of the universe as everything else. We're just dead star matter arranged in specific ways.

A part of the universe is objectively conscious.

[ozim]

I have yet another take on that.

Each consciousness is a universe on its own. Matter is just how those universes interact with each other. This is how quantum mechanics work in my idea, each observer affects the matter and quantum effects take most probable outcomes because of that.