“We are not mere passive apertures by which an active universe perceives itself — we are fractals of that prime activity, by which the universe stages dramas that are woven seamlessly into the fabric of the Great Story we call reality. To miss or disavow these subjective aspects of the Story is to admire a forest while giving no thought to root structure or photosynthesis, and to abdicate our co-creatorship only assures that our contribution will be dull and derivative.”