Sun is always happening even when it's just fusing nuclei and maintaining the most complex magneto-optical information processing system in light years.
Is the sun conscious?
If it wasn't, would we be?
And when it comes to that, and it does come to that, no single human being can develop language, no single human being can feed, clothe or defend him or herself from a hostile environment and no single human being can copy or reproduce themselves.
Which then is the animal? The individual? Or the social organism created by many individuals to share tasks, to acquire and analyze sensory data organize and store new, objectively true knowledge, which shapes collective belief and our common future?