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> Without the humans, the universe is empty.

Max Tegmark adds a twist to that statement: without consciousness (subjective experience), the universe is pointless.

Would you mind expanding?

Not familiar with the source from the parent, but the "point" to anything depends on a form of consciousness assigning that definition. There is no point to a water logged ball of rock, orbiting a giant ball of hot gas unless there is someone on that rock to say "the point of this rock is so I may exist.". Ignoring some cosmic creators with some purpose for us to exist (which would just be another form of consciousness), the whole point is decided by us. So without us, there would be no point.

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