Makes me think about this recent thread:
"If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9905847
The bacteria within us certainly don't know anything about our consciousness. Yet somehow the sum total of their activity results in a conscious being. If we as humans look and act like bacteria when we zoom out, do we suffer the same myopia of our bacteria friends, unable to recognize the consciousness our collective activity creates? It's fun to think about.