This is a very well thought out response. I really like Casper's reasoning a lot, but it sounds a bit too much like Donald Hoffman's conscious agents.

I'm not aware of ANY contemplative view - Christian, Kabbalistic, Sufi, Vedantic, Tantric, any school of Buddhism, etc, that adopts this view, except one - the extremely dualistic Sankhya of the 3rd or so century BC. Some interpret Sankhya as a kind of neutral monism, but some Sankhya texts have a radical distinction between consciousness and matter (note that "matter" in Indian phliosophy has NOTHING to do with the purely abstract concept of matter in most modern analytic writings - particulraly Dennett and Churchland.

If you want a more comprehensive view, I suggest Sri Aurobindo's "The Life Divine."