NeuroQuantology | September 2010 | Vol 8 | Issue 3 | Page 359‐377 Tariq. Could the human mind be a product of mental genes? ISSN 1303 5150 www.neuroquantology.com 359 Opinion and Perspectives Could The Human Mind Be a Product of Mental Genes: A Nonbiological Component of Brain Genes? Sadia Tariq*, Raza Kazim † , Iram Tauqir ‡ Abstract This paper explores the possibility of a hitherto undiscovered process within brain genes which could be responsible for the making of mental processes. The main proposition of this paper is that a brain gene, in addition to the protein template, might also contain a nonbiological mental template (mental gene) made of pre‐ atomic (which also excludes the known heavier constituent particles of the atom) light quantum energy forms, which programmes the brain cells to produce mental processes. Mental genes were added to the human brain genes when the need for a faster and more complex mental system arose both for integrating the growing perceptual, observation, problem solving and execution processes and for planning in terms of the body and its growing needs and not the genes. Apart from the proposed involvement of nonbiological processes in the formation and functioning of mental processes, we are also speculating their involvement, in tandem with the biological processes, in the genetic functioning related to the body. To give some examples, the overall design of the biological body contained in the gene could be existing in terms of a nonbiological process; they could be involved in the process of genetic mutations, signaling processes of non‐coding RNA, which regulate protein synthesis and epigenetic inheritance systems in cells. In fact in our view it was probably a nonbiological (pre‐atomic light quantum energy process) process which combined with the complex pre‐gene organic molecule mix to give birth to the gene itself as a stable process which then went on to make the initial stable cellular structures in evolution. Key Words: mind, human mind, genes, mental gene, nonbiological, evolution, brain NeuroQuantology 2010; 3: 359‐377 Introduction 1 The mainstream scientific disciplines engaged in genetic research and its applications are heavily focused on exploring the structure and functions of genes as a biological process. Whether its functions like Corresponding author: Sadia Tariq Address: 13, Gulberg 5, Off Zafar Ali Road, Lahore, Pakistan Phone: +92 42 35712193 Fax: +92 42 35711528 e‐mail: sadiatariq16@hotmail.com Received: April 27, 2010; Revised: March 15, 2010; Accepted: June 1 , 2010. protein synthesis, transcription, replication, or genes responsible for the making of various body organs and their functions, or for diseases like AIDS, cancer, Alzheimer or correlations between certain genes and certain mental functions, the underlying assumption is that genes are nothing more than a biological process. The mechanics of the making and functioning of the brain processes by the genetic process have been explained to a large extent but the making and functioning