I like how you think. It's also how I think as well. I
  half-jokingly have said that I fully expect my consciousness to
  continue existing in the center of an equally complicated thing,
  like the bubbling photons at the center of the star, slowly
  working their way up to the top... and that some configuration
  of photons or other things that is similar to my consciousness
  could just as well 'be' me as I am right here... just, with a
  much different way of seeing/understanding/knowing.