Come up with absolute definitions and understandings of both matter and consciousness and the question can be answered, however that would require omniscience so I'm not holding my breathe for answers.

The best we can probably do is establish some relationship between them, but the understanding of the relationship will be based on the state of existence we inhabit so it will most likely be a flawed approximation and only from our frame of reference.

In short we simply don't have the intellectual capacity to understand, and by our very nature and the nature of the existence we're anchored in we never will.