This is true, but I think it's a bit misleading. All of our generations of cells ever are always going to be functioning under the same genetic code, and our in

This is true, but I think it's a bit misleading. All of our generations of cells ever are always going to be functioning under the same genetic code, and our individual genetics are what serve as starting templates, or vague rule/condition sets of sorts for everything else. Mutations may arise here and there (if rarely), but DNA is really our fundamental thread of continuity as far as we know. What's to say that this similarly continuous notion of 'consciousness' we have isn't just some emergent property of our genetic code?