Can the World Exist Without an Observer?
The world exists according to the laws that define the world. The soul is neither part of the world nor a condition for its existence, just as consciousness is not.
According to the Book of Genesis, God created Heaven and Earth, that is, He defined the laws of the world, through which the material world appeared.
The second verse specifically states that the material world exists without life; there is no consciousness present to perceive and interpret the appearing world.
The Spirit of God hovers above the Waters, above the Face of the Deep, which means that the Spirit of God does not depend on the material world, just as the existence of the material world does not depend on the existence of the Spirit of God.
Later, the Spirit of God, the Breath of God, enters a material body, through which it becomes capable of perceiving the material world. However, the world already exists before this; therefore, the existence of consciousness is not necessary for the existence of the material world.
The existence of the material world depends solely and exclusively on the definitions that define its existence, that is, on the laws defined in Heaven.
What is defined in Heaven appears in the material world. The Spirit of God merely enters a perceiving body and thereby receives the possibility of perceiving the material world, but the existence of the material world does not depend on whether anyone perceives it.
The observer perceives the material world, but not the laws that are in Heaven. In Heaven there is no body and no perception, because the laws of Heaven can only be known by perceiving in the material world what they define.