Consciousness, The age old question, why are we here? Christ says that your spirit is like he wind, you don't know where it came from and you don't know where it is going. Just for a brief time you can feel it's blowing and hear it's whistle.
Is a rose conscious that it is beautiful? Does it try to be so? Certainly awareness is an unknown entity, not subject to the forces of nature except through a physical body.
Some would call this religion, the reason for belief in a creator. Go with it. It is natural.