The Jameson Satellite

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• Q16TRANSCENDENCE

  Would replacing bodily organs with artificial substitutes preserve the identity of the person?

  Yes. the person survives in a machine body. Aliens place a dead professor's preserved brain in a mechanical body and he continues as himself.

  Finally, after consummating his desires and having his efforts crowned with success, he placed the brain within the head of a machine. The brain was brought to consciousness. The creature's body was discarded after the all-important brain had been removed. … As Professor Jameson came to, he became aware of a strange feeling. He was sick. The doctors had not expected him to live; they had frankly told him so--but he had cared little in view of the long, happy years stretched out behind him. Perhaps he was not to die yet. He wondered how long he had slept. How strange he felt--as if he had no body. Why couldn't he open his eyes? He tried very hard. A mist swam before him. His eyes had been open all the time but he had not seen before. That was queer, he ruminated. All was silent about his bedside. Had all the doctors and nurses left him to sleep--or to die?

  Amazing Stories, July 1931 (Wikipedia, Cryonics Wiki). No public-domain text confirmed.