the key to really understanding that lies in the knowledge of a simple fact , in the words of the renowned cool Oscar winning screenwriter "It's all in your head" , Enter the dance :"Darwin "---> we ain't that special, the meaning depends on the story you tell yourself, [what your attention head/fishing rods focus on/attach to, Think of Google's PageRank, what is the linked to the most is the most meaningful, whether it's a slap from your dad instead of a hug you should have had, or a a loved one with tons of happy memories [that are all in your head ], what you define as happy, sad, love, hate , is also based on the dance that takes place in your head between literally everything. every meaning you form, idea you have is a product of a datasettic dance , all in your head. Now back to your specific question, consider again, google's Pagerank, but now apply that to , not just one head, but 8 billions, that product of that 8 billion human dance determines all the meaning behind everything, the interaction between your internal attention heads with those external meaning determine the meaning of everything to you. for example, to not drift so far let's consider this reply, every word I've written you will understand by & only by what is already their in ur head, You have no way of knowing the meaning behind this text , so what is happening now in your head is a dance encompassing all the vectors in your latent space, producing what you humans define as "consciousness"