What Is Special About Our Moment?

Scientists have found there's something special about this time we are in. This is the moment when the universe would begin to reflect upon self, they say. i for some of us, it's kind of a thrilling idea that the universe has a sense of time and knows what it is about. What does it mean, then, for the universe to somehow be conscious of itself? If the universe knew and some strange way howd to expand so that life could come forth? Maybe this is a speculation that the universe was driving towards not just life, but a reflection upon itself.