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.