Sheesh! Your host is a bit slow today, Dave...
<i>"The difference is that I am "a" looking glass - one of many - in the boundless universe of everything where there is room for an observer. This differs from being "the" looking glass - the only - in "my" bounded mini-verse where there might not be room for an observer (unless the looking glass and observer are one in the same)."</i>
There are two possible assumptions of course: tunnel vission or a panaromic view...robot or soul. As for the universe small and large, we absorb and reflect what we are or, what we want to be.