Welp, this answer seems to cover a lot of interesting philosophical ground.
Firstly, the answer to the question - if there is a way that I can be brought into a world where I don't despise myself and have a chance at the companionship my mind desires and is denied, sign me up.
About the consciousness issue, I'd see it as an emergent property. Most artificial neural networks with hidden layers tend to show a form of structural top-down logic emerging merely from being fed data, and from what research exists on this topic, it seems that the human brain is similar. The consciousness isn't a part of me, it's the result of the cognitive structure that is me being able to contemplate itself.
About the moving of consciousness - yes, you cannot 'move' your consciousness the way you move luggage from one part of the world to another - it's more in the vein of moving files from one drive to another (the separate drive part is important because moving within the same drive will only cause the path value to change - the physical location in terms of sectors on the drive does not change). When you move files from one drive to another, the file gets copied over, and then the original gets deleted. Only the file descriptor changes.
So yes, @weedoge is right that your consciousness cannot be transferred, since the unique entity that is you is bound to remain stuck to this world. However, I don't think that there's much of a difference between an identical copy of me living in a virtual world (probably possible), and my mental structure being moved over to the virtual world (most likely impossible). The only difference between our brains and a Python program that classifies images is that we have self-awareness. In terms of the end result, it doesn't make much of a difference if it's the original program that's being used, or an identical copy on a different drive - even though they may have different data after creation, they are fundamentally the same thing. Here again, we can see the seeds of value of experience being present - if one of the copies is to be trashed, the particular instance's experience and graph is lost, but the concept of the entity is not. And destroying either is equally damaging.
And here comes the kicker - there's no value difference between the original and the copy. Destroying the original me is the same as destroying the copy (Prestige flashbacks intensify). And just like the concept of the program (minus the graph of experience it has built up) does not die with the deletion of the original program, the concept of my personhood won't die when my original body does, if there is a copy present.
However, I'd like to counter @weedoge's statement that there's nothing about the human consciousness that is extraordinary. The sheer complexity of the structure of the human brain is worth noting, as is the idea that most of the complex structures that we use to understand the world are creations of this brain. It can find order in chaos to a surprising extent, and part of that comes from the ability to contemplate the abstract. I'd say that the human brain is special, since it can find structure in what it explicitly calls chaos.
Wew, that was a long answer.
