Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.
We take for granted how our mind puts everything together.
Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.
In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.
Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering the brain, we realize that they are not woven together automatically, any more than the information is inside a computer.
Any universe that could have preceded consciousness only existed in a probability state.