The Value of Consciousness in the Universe

Professor Cox: Biological life seems contingent on its relationship with us as the observer and how we narrate that transition. We know of one place in the universe where there are, in Richard Feynman's words, atoms that can contemplate atoms. And that to me is that we are the most valuable structures that we know of in the universe. It could be quite a lonely existence that we have here, but therefore very valuable indeed.