The are 3 categories of consciousness: 1. are you aware of your surroundings, 2.are you aware of yourself (self - consciousness), 3. are you aware of the big picture.
Humans possess all 3 categories, and of these 3 have degrees of amplitude for each. Meaning one person has a better concept of the big picture than another person. Therefore that person has a better understanding of his place within the universe. All creatures are aware of there surroundings, but not all are self-conscious. Mice cannot question their existence nor define themselves as mice. The limitations of the mind dictate the amplitudes towards consciousness.
Frequencies of consciousness: are you aware of your hair growing, or do you even know how it grows. There are mechanisms within your body that are aware of these process, as these mechanisms are in tune with the frequency conscious at the molecular level. These same mechanisms are unaware how they continually get food in the stomach to fuel there operations because that task exists out of its conscious frequency. Humans have a frequency of consciousness limited to a range. FigB1 displays the frequency ranges for several creatures. Humans live in luxury not being aware of everything that goes on in the universe. The mind does not have to control cell division, etc. This is how the relationship of the universe form as one frequency minds the tasks for higher frequencies. The small parts of the universe assist the larger parts without a conscious awareness. And just like the cells assist a human automatically, so too humans assist the universe automatically. Unknowing and unaware, but all together none the less. This is one entire process divided into miniscule processes working together under separate consciousness.