Don't forget that consciousness, or, scientifically speaking, higher nervous activity, is possessed exclusively by humans. That is, animals cannot think and feel like humans, and plants even less so. So, if there were no humans, everyone would be indifferent to this fact.
Humans only have an "exaggerated sense of self-importance," which leads them to believe they are the only intelligent beings.
In reality, as usual, it's all for Woland's amusement.
Except the ones we've made