Agency entered the universe with the emergence of Life. So far the search for extraterrestrial life has not found anyone. So our "Home in the Universe" as two important books in the mid-1990's with identical titles by John Wheeler and by Stuart Kauffman described it, is the terrestrial biosphere and the Gaia hypothesis of chemist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn Margulis.

Many writers hope to find agency, purpose, meaning, and value in the evolution and development of the universe since the origin, and many search for that agency even earlier in a divine creator or intelligent designer of the universe.

We can say that value and meaning did exist from the origin of the complex information structures of the universe.

The value was in the free energy, liberated from the second law by the expansion of the universe, as shown by Arthur Stanley Eddington and David Layzer.

Erwin Schrödinger appreciated the importance of free energy or negative entropy in the solar radiation from the Sun as critical for life on Earth, but he likely did not know how the universe could create such a star, given the second law.

The purely material universe would be meaningful to any intelligence, but its meaning was not seen or appreciated until living systems experienced it.

Information philosophy is satisfied to have identified a process, the cosmic creation process, which explains how the universe evolution escaped the second law of thermodynamics to generate all the elementary material particles of the passive (and non-communicating) information structures in the universe, as well as the immaterial information in material objects and of course the immaterial concepts in agential minds and in the Sum of externally stored human knowledge.