Consciousness being and doing what it is and does. That's all folks!

The individual's unique life and experience is 'important' since it is essential and indispensable to the collective whole but it is the 'illusion' of total importance and primacy over all other life(s) that when seen by self and others as 'one's defining characteristic' defines 'the state and problem of ignorance'..
Ignorance caused by a natural preoccupation with self and obsessive focus on self-gratification of personal sensations, feelings and personal life experience.

ps/smoh