Yeah. How about plants? And all the little critters that run the earth? Do we really, as the supremely egoistic human beings we are, really think that we are the only beings on the planet with "consciousness?"
No wonder we feel disconnected. We don't see the connections all around us.
Don't forget about trees, vines, ferns... and what of the blooming wild cactus - the "moonflower?"
Check out the review of a book by a British naturalist... Think of the natural world as different models of being alive! Different modes!
Maybe our own lives are so odd and foreign to us, because we don't really, can't really, encompass the whole picture. We possess a little slice of consciousness, but it is only one tiny slice of a much bigger pie.
A Universe-sized pie! So yes, consciousness, Universal Consciousness. Tune In!