I hope you aren’t implying that “Why you are here” has nothing to do with the fact that you, personally, were born. Why were you born? Your parents conceived you. Why did they conceive you? Well, I can’t answer that but it has a variety of causes just as “seeking comfort” entails more than the two examples given, though you seem to see them as answers themselves rather than an explanation of the said quoted material.
Many think that the “I” is the body. The body was born and the “I” was created later.
The entire organism that is to say the entire human thing is nothing but a sensory organ.
Matter manifests from compression of waves or frequencies that have short lived changes of state .
Space is not empty . Space is an energetic quantum sea.
These waves or frequencies entangle indfinitely.
The sensory organ is not yet evolved to register the stimuli other then that instant when matter appears to it. The sensory organ is itself wave or frequencies from empty space.
Matter can not see itself. Without consciousness the human thing would be just a lump. A lump that could not see itself or create a “self”.
And the lump did not create consciousness ; consciousness create it.
It seems that the only reason all this manifests is so that the universe can see itself. (Carl
Sagan) and the “I”, “me” “us” is only survival mechanism (capslockf9).