Transhumanism: What parts of being a biological life form would you want to keep if your consciousness and memories were ported to an android?

The senses are the reason we feel everything we do about life, so all of them. That'll be pretty much everything. Oh, I almost forgot, can I get a memory and processing update for my brain, please?

When I see the coming of the machine, I see personal immortality on the horizon.  If I could choose what to keep and what to let go, I would relinquish death and I would lay disease to rest. To see what is over the next hill and to still laugh and cry and smell the earth, I might just go on forever. But what of the path that led us to this shining moment?  What of the cycle of life and death coupled with selection and change that allowed us to rise up from the wet Earth and walk about and ask questions of each other? The scope is so huge. I find myself feeling a bit concerned that we might inadvertently eliminate some unimaginably better future moment by ending the evolutionary cycle that got us here. Still, I say yes!

I doubt you can port consciousness from one entity to a second. And if you could, would you take time to optimize the program? Fix the memory overruns? Correct the asynchronous deadlocks. Do A/B testing on two different targets? Who would own the non-biological life? Would you set a time limit on existence? Or would we fill the planet with immortal engines? How would know if you made it to a robot or just a really good simulator? And non-biological drugs would probably be more addicting [no side-effects!] -- Stay away from MRI machines and deguassing coils? I think youthful appearance  and energy would be on everyone's wish list. Identification would be difficult as mechanical faces can be easily changed. Keep all memories as they define you. And if I was actually ported to an Android OS, I'd just self-destruct.

All of it. Science is as a matter of necessity rooted in the objective.  The consciousness is a priori subjective.  By definition, the subjective is not objective. Incorporation of non-organic matter into an organism for survival is old, old, old.  Older than humans by literally billions of years.  I see transhumanism as rife with hubris and a complete lack of perspective. Having majored in neurobiology, I'm all too aware of not merely the current failure to really understand consciousness on a molecular biological level, but the incapacity of science to bridge the gap between the subjective and objective.  Hence do I retain an ideology of non-overlapping magesteria for certain philosophic and scientific pursuits. The connection between the body and self-identity is as real, innate, and evolutionarily derived as any drive to create systems of logic to understand the world.  I would never sacrifice one on the altar of the other, and more than I would give up hearing music to enhance the appearance of visual beauty, or give up the appreciation of moving to enhance the stimulation of reading; at least, not in anything other than a transient sense.

The question is silly.  What would be the point in remembering something which you can't relate to?  In fact, all the sensations that are being mentioned are generated in the brain anyway, so why not simply indulge in ever more delusional behaviors? This is simply some reductionist perspective that, again, simply assumes that the mind/body relationship is digital recording, as if it were a DVD.  It's silly.

I would want to keep all the 5 senses. Right now I am thinking of that android as one with an almost indestructible powered exoskeleton of the likes of the Iron Man suit. So I would want to exploit it to experience some of those senses to their full extent by doing this:

Every single quanta.

My answer is informed by some prior thoughts. At university I had cause to ponder what the experience of omniscience would be like (probably after reading Thomas Nagel). This meshed with an older idea I had while looking over a horizon-reaching set of row homes and thinking "there are more homes there than I can count, each full of people whose life is as interesting to them as mine is to me and I'll never know a single one of them". And that, of course, was probably only 10'000 stories that were within my gaze and all still inaccessible to me. On a smaller scale, I was trying to explain to someone why self-driving cars have — in principle — one huge advantage over human drivers: they could look in every direction simultaneously with equal attention. Our minds have severe input bandwidth limits and cognition is downright slow. At present, the highest rate that we can bring new information in is through reading. I read quickly, but I can load a small library onto my StupidPhone™ in under a minute. Wouldn't it be nice to have that input data rate or better? As Douglas Adams' Marvin laments: "brain the size of a planet…"; I like pleasures of the flesh as much as anyone, but I'd be willing to sacrifice some of it for that, with the ability to expand as needed. If P. K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream…" comes to pass, I might not even have to forgo the flesh.

I'd love to be able to keep all aspects of my memory and intelligence. There are so many things we learn on the adventure of life, it seems a shame that we will eventually lose it. It would be amazing if we could somehow back it up to some sort of android super brain. I wonder if we would keep our consciousness? The thought of it is absolutely fascinating. Who knows, the brain is one of the most complicated things in the universe, but at the rate medicine and technology is moving, who knows what is possible?