Is There Awareness?

I thought from an evolutionary perspective, why would awareness exist? What is the, some people are triggered by thinking about it this way. But anything that we have as part of our experience is because there's some evolutionary. So I'm thinking, why is there awareness? What benefit is there from a survival and evolutionary perspective? It seems clear to me if you have pleasure and pain or comfort and discomfort, they're useless unless you have an audience for them,. Yeah. And I'll say one more thing. You're not quite at the self level yet.