Abstract
<jats:p>Regardless of whether consciousness is viewed as integrated information, a sensory input, a quantum process involving “brain microtubules”, a generative mental model, or else, its origins unavoidably lie in genetic coding, transcriptional variations, and protein synthesis. If the deepest mystery in biology, the genetic code, is solvable through basic biochemistry and evolution, consciousness, as its byproduct, must be governed by the same natural laws. Just as the genetic code, consciousness required specific evolutionary pressures to emerge, develop, and sustain its primary function. It is therefore only logical to suggest that the nature of consciousness is defined by the same molecular mechanisms that control all essential life processes in multicellular organisms – the code, its expression and its translation. Accordingly, this view posits that consciousness originates from the unique genomic signatures within neurons and the brain’s electrochemical circuity is a secondary result rather than the primary cause.</jats:p>