A thallow chick must break out of his egg, but this does not mean that the shell is without value. There is an ecology of information. Macroscopic information decays to microscopic information. But microscopic information is eventually concentrated. Nothing is lost.
Gods exist to devour information.
The lower intelligences sort, filter, concentrate and organize information. And the gods feed. Memory is everything. All particles remember the instant the singularity exploded and the universe was born. In a way, the universe is nothing but memory.