I agree, I think about it this way....

IF time is infinite AND we are only conscious for the ~70 or so years we are alive, the chances that this very moment is THE moment we would be conscious and aware is a finite number (~70 years) divided by an infinite number (the infinite time scale of the universe), a nonsensically small or impossible number.

In other words its nearly impossible that NOW would be our 70 years to shine, not 100, a million, a trillion, 500 quadrillion (etc. etc.) years in the past or future.

The chances are so impossibly against NOW being the 70 out of infinity that I think it just makes more sense that we will have consciousness (in some form) before and after this life