I was recently opposed to anthropocentrism, but now only partly due to the power of consciousness, as you've mentioned.
Sometimes I imagine "the world" as my personal universe. For instance, as if nothing existed before me and nothing exists after me; that my being allows anything and everything to exist. I recall a theory of the universe being designed with proverbial fingerprints to give the illusion of history etc.. so the story to this play (as you called it) makes sense.
Sometimes I view it as a video game, well, this perspective van correspond with that of the aforementioned- similar to a video game, I have spawned seemingly randomly in this arbitrary environment with no inherent goals. I have predisposed opposition (police, government, racists, large carnivores, etc). There are things which excite the stimuli, albeit negatively or positively➡pederasty, Asian women, art, famine, war, lesbian lactation breastfeeding, religion, fornication of nuns etc. Then, you have all this to work with and play the game until you die. There's no right or wrong anything. You die then you respawn. The "gift" that Amoral God has granted you.
Yes, the scientists tend to not incorporate the human experience with the functionality of the universe. (I think this notion is gradually becoming more prominent though). Scientific findings we discussed before, ie double-slit experiment, validate this.