If the alternative is true, then I think how fortunate/strange that I, this consciousness, exists at all, considering the fast length of time preceding my birth during which I was not conscious, considering the fast number of conscious entities that have existed on earth during that time, assuming animals are to some varying extent conscious, and considering the vast number conscious entities on other inhabitable planets in all the vast number of galaxies. The universe could easily have carried on until heat death without me myself being a conscious entity in it.