Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis

[bennyboy]

I think that the center of my theory is that our consciousness is our oldest evolutionary system. Whatever makes us, "living" is our consciousness. It was obviously very, very, very, rudimentary in the early stages, but so was the eye and the heart.

I know this definitely sounds like woo. But just think about it with an open mind, if my theory that consciousness is as old as life itself, then that means consciousness is what centers us to the very earliest organism.

What is the critical mass or evolutionary moment at which non-conscious goes to conscious, in your view? What's the most primitive system, structure or event that can be conscious?