Also, here's an interesting concept that underpins the above. All matter needs rules that define it. So we can't have matter without underlying rules - laws of physics etc. We also can't have rules without matter to apply them on. Otherwise they couldn't exist in reality. But of rules and matter only one of these can exist independent of the other. We can have rules that exist in theory (without matter) but we cannot have matter that exists in theory (without rules). So these facts tell us a couple key pieces of knowledge: 1) that before matter could exist rules existed in theory and 2) that in order to have rules existing in theory, there needed to be an equivalently capable awareness to conceive of and hold these rules to govern all matter, time and space in theory.