Still working through the article, but it reminded me of the presumable fact that everything that happened before the first conscious entity existed in the Universe was essentially instantaneous. Same goes for time's forward direction. Without consciousness, i.e. with a perfect form of stasis, one could time travel to just before the heat death of the Universe in an instant.
John Archibald Wheeler took this idea even further with the PAP, the Participatory Anthropic Principle.
I assume you meant "can't"? I think the parent simply made a poor choice of words, "a perfect form of stasis" fits a lot better than "without consciousness"
I actually assert this! But that is because I say the word "exist" is meaningless without a conscious observer. I would claim that existence requires consciousness and vice versa.
John Archibald Wheeler took this idea even further with the PAP, the Participatory Anthropic Principle.