Consciousness and awareness are two different words and notions.

Consciousness is what exists and has the ability to gain experience, i.e. knowledge, by means of its physical and psychological actions.

Awareness is one of the states of consciousness to which consciousness brings itself by means of experience/knowledge, that is, by thinking over on that knowledge and understanding it.

The opposite state is called unawareness”. This is the state in which consciousness still exists, but it uses neither its physical and psychological abilities nor its knowledge.

In regard to this it is important to emphasize that, for example, a man and a stone have the same consciousness, but not the same awareness. The human body, brain, and senses are highly developed instruments by which consciousness, which builds the human body, significantly increases the possibilities of usage of its physical and psychological abilities, and by that also the possibilities of experience/knowledge gain as well as its awareness. With regard to the stone, however, its possibilities of using physical and psychological abilities are much lesser, as is its awareness.

So if we want to know how much some material form is aware, it is necessary to, by observing it objectively, sensorially, determine what it is, i.e. what it does and how it behaves. The rule of any existence, just as the existence of all material forms or particles that exist only relatively, is that the consciousness of which they are made knows as much and is aware as much as it needs to be able to, by means of that knowledge, by self-transformation, take the form of a particle or a material form, and then as much as it needs to stay that way as long as it is possible. So, if we speak about the consciousness that builds a stone, it knows and is aware of only as much as it needs to be objectively manifested and exist as the stone. If we speak about the consciousness that builds the human body, i.e. man, then it knows and is aware of all it needs to self-transform into a human body and all that is necessary to exist as a man.

Nevertheless, all this regarding the quantity of knowledge and awareness of some material form or particle does not have to be as literal as that. It all depends on the degree of development of the senses, i.e. the information system that that material form or particle has the chance to use. This would mean that one atom in a human body, for example, can be aware as much as the man, since each cell in the human body and each atom inside that cell is communicatively connected with the consciousness of the whole human body and that in every moment it is informed and aware of all that the man himself is aware. This applies similarly to a stone which is a part of a celestial body as a system, which knows and is aware as much as that celestial body is. Or maybe even as much as the entire universe, considering that no celestial body in space exists separately and only for itself, but is always a part of an even broader system of celestial bodies, where each of these celestial bodies is as conscious as the entire universe. This should mean that a stone, which is found in the structure of a celestial body can be even more aware than the man himself, i.e. to be as aware as the whole universe. Man will gain such awareness only then when he manages to communicatively connect his consciousness with the whole universe. This is, of course, possible and this is what some rare people (meditators) manage to do from time to time.