What are the different components and levels of maturity that you see in consciousness? Why Can you name an aspect of reality you do think of as fundamental?
Consciousness, to me is the combination of having thoughts + qualia, and possibly a first-person viewpoint that is the focal point of the first two criteria.
Even if we were to include an evolving personality, all possible aberrations, etc... Would it really matter? If you ask a materialist to tell you "where do the laws of physics come from", the most likely answer will be that they are fundamental and hence, "were always there". The laws of physics are the most annoyingly intricate "thing" that we know of, with a vast number of selective manifestations and characteristics, but they were always there and we do not need to explain from where they came.
Yet malf here is baffled that there are "too many components" and "different levels of maturity" (BTW, "maturity" is a terrible word for what is essentially the same as describing a characteristic; levels of manifestation in human vs. primitive organisms is nothing more than that, the capacity to manage something, in the same way that birds learned to cheat a fundamental force -gravity- for their benefit) for consciousness to be fundamental.