First let me say thank you for the post.

"Your conscious for all we know isn’t even connected to your body in terms of we know of. It could literally just be 1s and 0s but in biological terms."

Science is just now exploring the idea of the brain as a receiver of consciousness rather than the materialist generator of consciousness. But if it is a receiver, that puts us even farther away from making it work. How can we even begin to understand something (the source or signal the brain receives) if 1) we don't know what that would be. 2) can't even prove or disprove the materialist vs receiver hypothesis.

Even if consciousness could be boiled down to ones and zeros if it's a receiver we have no means whatsoever to find or experiment with that source.

Maybe there is a way to live forever through advanced anti oxidation, nanobots repairing cellular damage, or periodic dna repair. That's not really my field. But the whole consciousness transfer thing is very far fetched imho.

In terms of what a person is, you're right we don't know what it is. But you do hit on a good point. We certainly aren't just our memories. It seems we are more the sum total of our DNA, experiences, nurture, as well as the stream of unique cognitive functions that process those things (often with unique mistakes and interpretations).

This creates an issue where the "you" that you are is highly unique and ever changing. Almost like an AI who can rewrite its own code. It begs the question, if even one tiny bit of information was incorrect, how far off from "you" would any copy be? We can't just copy memories from the original, because the originals memories aren't correct either. It's not about just the end product of the memory. It's about the unique fingerprint of what about the actual experience was coded into memory, and the unique things remembered, forgotten, and distorted. There's likely important and unique information not just in what was remembered, but what was also forgotten and distorted.

If you want a good book on the subject "I am a strange loop." It's a good read.