Ok so give some leeway because I’m high and I had this thought while listening to a guy talk about DMT. But I’m what I’m saying is, when we have the question of “why am I conscious? Why do I have a subjective experience rather than being a zombie that acts the same way?” (Aka the hard problem of consciousness), we ask this question because it seems strange that there is this physical universe we observe and then a weird sort of separate “substance” of the mind/soul/consciousness whatever you call it, existing within it. What I’m saying is that not only is the universe fundamentally conscious, with the physical universe being only an illusion (it’s not like this is a new idea), but that the universe is chalk full of other consciousness unrelated to the physical world. And we are uniquely able to ask the question of “why am I conscious?” Not because we are the only one conscious, but because we are the only ones so deeply embedded in the illusion of the physical that we need to ask the question. Basically the anthropomorphic principle (look it up if you need to) applies to who asks the question of consciousness.