Surfing on “the fundamental reality of the universe is information”, I came up with this quote from someone (a science reporter) who has trouble with the idea:
Part of me would love to believe that consciousness is not an accidental by-product of the physical realm but is in some sense the primary purpose of reality. Without us to ponder it, the universe makes no sense; worse, it’s boring.
Scientific American opinion blog
Of course, he is not seeing how well that fits into a Christian worldview… mine, anyway. (Recall why God created the universe.)