My philosophy is terrible but it appears to me that what causes the chicken to come into existence proceeds the chicken in itself. Whatever is in the egg is unk

My philosophy is terrible but it appears to me that what causes the chicken to come into existence proceeds the chicken in itself. Whatever is in the egg is unknown until it hatches. This is an example of Schrodinger's box observable as a natural process. What's wrong with this thought? Where/when/how does the chicken's awareness of itself as a chicken arise? Is the chicken aware of itself as a chicken before it hatches? If consciousness, sentience, sapience, awareness/feeling, memory, and all the good stuff that makes an individual actually exist is _knowable_ then at what point does individual consciousness not exist? Wherefore am I/you/us?