Is There a Need for Consciousness?

Physicists have long debated whether there is a need for consciousness in observer d lots of physicists, for a long time thought there must be a need. My problem with the idea that nothing happens in the universe until there's a sentient being is that i don't know what was doing the observing sort of way back. It seems to me that you could say, you know, universe was conscious of itself or some well, self evening, but that yewas meaningless. Cause dinosaurs were conscious, ye, to a degree. Ye, definitely. But then those little lads billions and billions of years ago in the fokan aceon, but they would have, like, a degree