The conscious is our Universe.

Our awareness is limited to our cerebral capabilities. Although, if we compare ourselves to animals, our awareness is enhanced by our cerebral capability.

The concept of limitation or the meaning of "enhancement" only exists in our comprehension and understanding of reality. So, ironically, it is the awareness of our own ideas, and our ways of grading and judging our reality, by cutting it into small abstractions, and rebuilding them on our minds and their own particular contexts, that keeps us from truly being consciously connected to the universe.