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I'm not sure that consciousness falls into a special category no matter how special we humans deem it. Indeed many in the animal kingdom show self-awareness. We're probably being laughed at by aliens who think our 'consciousness' is cute. We could apply that reasoning to virtually all of our traits. I don't think anyone would necessarily predict that we ought to be bilaterally symmetrical instead of displaying 4- or 5-axis symmetry, but here we are. To me it seems we are just accidentally where we are without much cosmic direction... or utter cosmic direction with no intention, depending on your point of view. :)