Countless species on earth, such as insects, do not have real awareness as far as we know, and yet they have survived and thrive for much longer than human existence in the world.
Think of an ant for example: it has no mental capacity to understand even the tip of the iceberg of the universe in which it lives. For her it is a foreign and clearly incomprehensible place, and it amounts to a few inches where she is able to feel and pursue food. This does not prevent her from surviving and reproducing successfully.
Compared to the whole universe, our size and our brain size are no different from those of the ant. Where then did we get the ability to understand the universe? How is it that we do not experience it as inconceivable chaos, but as an orderly system that obeys the equations we are able to understand? In other words, what is the source of the match between human consciousness and the universe?