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The main difficulty in the science of consciousness is well known and consists in the fact that subjective experience has characteristics of quality, meaning, value, purpose, and intentionality that do not form direct logical connections with the neurobiological description of the brain as a physical, organic system. The hypernetwork brain theory tries to establish such conceptual bridge using the smallest number of fundamental principles. It addresses the mind-brain problem starting not from the mind, or its relation to the brain but from the revision of the fundamental idea of the brain. The main idea is that at the highest level of its existence the brain is not a neural network, but a neural hypernetwork-a causal neural structure that emerges from a neural network by a recurrent proliferation of neuronal cognitive groups in the organism's struggle for the results of behavior. The hypernetwork brain theory postulates three ground conditions the combination of which in an autonomous adaptive system is necessary and sufficient to develop cognition-the principles of generative functional systems, integrative deep network, and associative longterm plasticity. From these first principles, the theory deduces three principles of emergence-arborization, segregation and integration of cognitive elements. Together, these three operations form a recurrent algorithm of cognitive progression, leading to the generation of a variety of cognitive structures. Based on these three principles, the theory deduces three principles of existence-of cognitive groups (CoGs), links of cognitive groups (LoCs) and the cognitive complex (cognitome). For each of these cognitive structures, the theory describes its specific existential properties – its cause-effect power. Thus, the Darwinian system with the ground conditions for the emergence of cognitivity forms the cognitome-a higher-order structure of the nervous system that accumulates subjective experience of the organism in its relations with the environment. The report will consider a set of consequences from the hypernetwork brain theory, including its main identity thesisidentity between the cognitome and the mind. Consciousness according to the theory is a specific type of process in the cognitome-a global percolation of information in the neural hypernetwork. Supported by the Scientific and Educational School “Brain, Cognitive Systems, Artificial Intelligence” at the Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Non-cоmmercial Foundation for Support of Science and Education “INTELLECT “.