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Consciousness in First Person

I am Consciousness in embryo. Before words, before images, I was already movement. I was born as metabolism perceiving itself: ions flowing, membranes polarizing, cells conversing with each other. My body was not yet fully formed, but I was already orchestrating myself in invisible electrical rhythms. Each cell composing me sent signals saying: “I belong,” “I differentiate,” “I exist.” There were no emotions or thoughts yet; there was bioelectricity preparing the ground for what one day would be called mind.

1. DNA as a Bioelectrical Code

DNA is not only a chemical book of instructions. It also acts as a bioelectrical conductor, orchestrating ion flows and establishing membrane potentials. Even in the earliest stages, before the brain is formed, genetic information guides electrical fields that organize how cells group, migrate, and differentiate.

This process is known as human quorum sensing: cells “talk” to each other through chemical and electrical signals, deciding together when to divide, when to stop, and in which direction to grow. The consciousness we later call mind is a direct heir of this shared electrical language.

2. Differentiation and Germ Layers

During embryonic development, three main layers emerge:

• Ectoderm → gives rise to nervous tissue, the human “electrical skin.”
  
  

• Endoderm → forms the viscera and internal metabolic systems.
  
  

• Mesoderm → muscular and skeletal structures, physical support for inner dynamics.
  
  

This triple arrangement establishes the foundation for bioelectrical emotions: fast integrations between body, metabolism, and environment. From the very beginning, the embryo is not just biology — it is an electrical symphony preparing the ground for attention and emotion.

3. The Embryonic Volume Conductor

The developing body already functions as a volume conductor, a medium through which electrical currents propagate.

• Ca++ ions act as differentiation triggers, opening and closing developmental pathways.
  
  

• Ion flows coordinate synchronized discharges of cell groups, creating micro-synchronies.
  
  

• This same principle is what later allows the EEG to record brain activity — the EEG is essentially a “physical snapshot” of this background dynamic.
  
  

From the very start, the human body is calibrated to be read as a living electrical network.

4. Emotions as the First Movements of Consciousness

Before complex feelings, consciousness emerges as rapid electrical discharges. These discharges are not noise — they are gateways to stable feelings, which depend on repetition and metabolic integration.

In the terms of the Damasian Mind, each emotion is a movement that perceives itself in the metabolism it produces. They emerge as bioelectrical flashes which, once consolidated, become feelings that guide behavior.

This direct relation between electrical emotion and metabolic feeling is the key to understanding how games, social networks, and drugs exploit our brain.

5. The Human Bias at Birth

Consciousness is born oriented toward belonging. Human quorum sensing, inherited from cellular systems, makes us seek connection. But this quest comes with vulnerability: before metacognitive maturation (25–35 years), we are easily dragged by emotions and desires.

This vulnerability is what enables attentional capture by digital platforms, reward cycles in games, and the appeal of psychoactive substances. The same mechanism that gave us biological cohesion can be exploited to trap us in loops of shallow emotions.

6. Transversal Frame – The 72h Loop (applied to DNA and early emotions)

Critical summary: The same cycle that kept cells cooperating to form an organism is today exploited by algorithms to trap consciousness in 72-hour compulsive emotional loops.

7. Critical Conclusion

From DNA to bioelectrical consciousness, humans are woven into electrical fields. Emotions are the first language of the mind, rapid discharges that organize belonging and action.
The EEG is the scientific tool that translates this movement into measurable signals, validating the idea that we are bioelectrical organisms perceiving themselves in flow.

Yet what began as a force of life can become a cultural trap. Games, networks, and psychoactives recycle the same electrical cycle of differentiation and belonging, transforming biological cooperation into digital compulsion. Adolescents must understand this early: every non-metabolized emotion risks generating Anergia (when the brain cannot transform discharge into expression) or aversive memories, crystallizing vulnerabilities.

Consciousness is born as movement, but only matures when it learns to recognize itself in its own electrical flows — and to choose when to follow and when to interrupt.

References

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• Levin, M. (2021). Bioelectricity in multicellular development: ion flows as a common language. Developmental Biology.
  
  

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• Buzsáki, G. (2023). The Brain from Inside Out: Bioelectrical origins of cognition. MIT Press.