No, I'm saying the consciousness will actually outgrown the bounds of the brain so completely that when the brain itself finally dies you won't consider it anyt

No, I'm saying the consciousness will actually outgrown the bounds of the brain so completely that when the brain itself finally dies you won't consider it anything more than a small appendage anyway. The brain isn't going to be replaced bit by bit, it's going to be subsumed into a much larger consciousness. You seem to have this notion that the consciousness will be either in the brain or in the machine, I think that notion is fundamentally flawed, consciousness will expand to include every tool and sense available in both hardware and wetware, it cannot and will not be bound. Your sense of "self" is going to include every hardware upgrade you have; when you can Google with a thought, you will feel like part of you dies if that's turned off as it will quickly become part of your consciousness.