system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why am I conscious and aware?

If I am a simply a product of evolution and time. Why am I aware and conscious at all? For example, the universe existed when I wasn't conscious, so why did i suddenly go into existence? Why can't there just be a MaxCL, but my current consciousness didn't exist. Like all our actions can be explained by the atoms, so my consciousness or awareness isn't necessary AT ALL. I think everything is cause and affect but I am freaking conscious for some reason. Sorry I couldn't word this better, I'm having a midnight crisis. I hope you understand my question!
gpt
Good questions; one answer is that certain physical configurations (I.e. Your brain) give rise to minds and so consciousness as well. But why these and not others? Well, that's the problem isn't it?

The whole "why did evolution give rise to consciousness" is a really good question because there doesn't seem to be any reason why we need thoughts to survive; maybe our theory of evolution is missing something, maybe there's a reason why subjective experience is adaptive, or maybe consciousness isn't natural at all. 

There's a lot of literature about the topic, but philosophical zombies are a pretty good place to start regarding "conceiving a world where you're not conscious."