Cells, DNA, Genes, and Mind
A drosophila (a genus of flies) has 14,700 genes, and an Indian corn has about 45,000 genes.
However, as genome sequence quality and the methods for identifying protein-coding genes improved, the count of recognized protein-coding genes (of a man) dropped to 19,000-20,000. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genome)
Genes are part of genome or total chromosomal deoxyribonucleic acids (DNA) in a cell nucleus.
The total length of the human genome is over 3 billion base pairs. The genome is organized into 22 paired chromosomes, termed autosomes, plus the 23rd pair of sex chromosomes (XX) in the female, and (XY) in the male. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genome)
(http://igbiologyy.blogspot.com/2014/03/chromosomes-dna-genes-and-alleles.html)
This means that there are many parts of DNA whose work as genes is not identified, although a gene gives information to create a specific type of proteins that builds an organism and eventually the human body.
The point at issue is that it is not thought there is a gene that creates a human mind. It means that a human mind is not in DNA, any chromosome, or any human cell that is a basic building block of the body, while the human body is solely made of human cells whose number is between 30 to 60 trillion.
Indeed, if a human mind is in genes, a fly or even a corn must have its mind as such a living thing has as many genes as, or more genes than, a human being has.
However, it is apparent that a human mind is in the brain that is created according to some genes or unknown genes in DNA. So, a human mind is created after the brain is built or while the brain is functioning. And the function of the brain is to handle information transmitted from various parts of the human body through nerve systems. This information is in the form of electric signals. Handling of electric signals produces micro-electromagnetic fields in the brain that cannot be turned off, like a computer that is never powered off, since the birth of a man as long as the man lives.
The brain cells take energy from glucoses and mitochondria. Glucoses give energy without oxygen (the glycolytic energy system) but mitochondria need oxygen to produce energy (the mitochondria energy system). Based on this energy, brain cells or nerve cells in the brain handle numerous electric signals 24 hours per day per year as long as a man lives.
So, it is beyond imagination how complicated micro-electromagnetic fields have been created in the human brain. This degree of complex nature must be the key of emergence of a human mind, since the brain is a kind of computer that is never powered off since the birth of the man.
But after the brain has acquired the necessary degree of complex nature of micro-electromagnetic fields, the soul or spirit must come from the spiritual space, like energy that came from the spiritual space to create this material universe. And, eventually, a man is established with a human mind supported by his spirit or pneuma.
In this context, with great advancement of science and technology, the mankind might someday create human cells and the brain that functions to create a human mind, but to establish a human being, it must be essential to receive a spirit from the spiritual space. And, it is dubious that the God will send a spirit to such an artificial brain. In this sense, the mankind can even create an artificial biological man-like robot without a spirit, but it surely cannot create a human being with a spirit like the God does.
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Luke 6 King James Version (KJV)
21 Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
24 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
25 Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.