What Is Evolution - Reconciling natural selection & consciousness

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I remember in one of your vids, you mentioned explaining what evolution really is and I'm eagerly awaiting that video to drop. I want to understand how evolution works from the non-dual paradigm. How does consciousness iterate and refine itself over large periods of "time" to produce increasingly complex life forms. What kind of mechanism is at work here?

From the materialist pov it is an unconscious process that happens due to survival pressures. I assume the same is somewhat true from an absolute, non dual pov, however, I assume the whole process is being guided in a conscious manner like a grand game played by the universe or consciousness. As if all life forms are part of one overarching meta-organism.