@PNX: Got anything you can take? :c Soup, mebe~?
Yeah, and that would be interesting, but I still don't know if I'd trust it to be so safe and not-technically-suicide. I'd think it would also require the use of living neurons for the transfer, rather than electronics.
I got a few ideas on that, based around gradual-change. Ranges from changing whole parts of the brain (square centimenters or something?) to an electronic analog, to replacing the neurons one by one, remaining conscious throughout (Though to do that we'd need to advance leaps and bounds in nano-tech, to get nanobots able to replicate the exact connections that exist in your brain at the moment of replacement, and a substitute neuron that can do the same things (change connections, grow, etc) without the whole... neurological disease thing.
Individualism in consciousness is continuity between points of time and of interactions between objects, in our case neurons. As long as you have the continuity and the interactions, it shouldn't matter what the objects are made of, to an extent. I mean it's probably POSSIBLE to make a "brain" out of cornflakes, but -really really- difficult.
Sorry, this is my pet idea, and why I'm going into neuroscience, to GET these gradual replacement therapies and be able to convert mortal humans to immortal machine GODS!
MWAH haha !