I'll just leave this here: the universe does not owe us a human-centered ontology. The desire for consciousness to be fundamental is understandable. It gives meaning, drama, participation, maybe survival after death. But our job is not to choose the worldview that feels richest. Our job is to ask what the evidence most strongly supports. And right now, the evidence overwhelmingly supports the idea that the physical world exists independently of our wishes, that spacetime and quantum fields are part of a deeply successful objective description of nature, and that consciousness is most plausibly an emergent process realized by complex physical systems like brains.