The World is a Consensual Holographic Hallucination. Much like the “Holodeck” for Star Trek fans.
The Consensual Holographic Hallucination is filled with “Things”. Some of them don’t do much (think Rocks, Pond water, etc.). Other things are very active (think animals, water, Us!).
Some of the more active things have brains so they can do quite complicated actions. Scientists claim that we humans have the largest brains, so we probably do.
I like to think of the things with brains as being like computers. There is the Hardware (think the body including the brain and the nervous system) and there is the Software (think the information that is stored in our DNA, think the information that is stored in our brains).
The combination of the Hardware and the Software makes us who we appear to be in The World.
Whoever or whatever creates the Human Hardware and the Human Software and combines them together is responsible for who we are and how we express. I say God/The Creator made us, and is therefore responsible for who we are and how we express.
That does not leave much room for us to be responsible, at least at the level of Truth.
Where does the Sense of Self (Self-Awareness) Come From?
In the same way that human-created Artificial Intelligence can be Self-Aware, the Human Software that runs on the Human Hardware is Self-Aware.