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If an interface is created which would allow to reduce the mind of a person to a set of digital data, this would be the end of that person as a human being, and probably the end of humanity if it were implemented en masse.
Option 1: Once you're dead, you're dead. Forever. It's literally the end of you. You cease to exist.
Perhaps you really made sure of it by shooting yourself in the head to prevent scanning.
Option 2: Once you're dead, your brain gets scanned and you violently regain consciousness inside a computer (possibly against your will, thanks to anti-euthanasia groups and christfags). You must pay for your own electricity and computing time lease (though you can't afford a full backup), so you must work a shitty corporate job. The manager not only supervises your activities, but also your thoughts. If you run out of money, you are evicted from your computer space, a side effect of which is immediate death. But that's just everyday life in a free capitalist world, right? The virtual world (socioeconomically) looks a lot like the movie
In Time. Your main way of spending your free time (something you do not have a lot of) is running a program that simulates dopamine release (which is, thanks to politicians and christfags, illegal). The computer you run on almost certainly has backdoors from both your government and the company you work for, and you are under constant surveillance. In between shots of virtual meth you realize how much you hate what you've become and regret insulting all those neckbearded socialist who had advocated for software freedom so many years ago.
Option 3: Once you're dead, your brain gets scanned and you suddenly regain consciousness inside a computer (but only if you agreed to it). The computer is supplied by your e-life insurance policy, and you had access to it before you actually died (so you could check that it is, indeed, clean of backdoors). Since most people preferred to just die (something about being uncomfortable with the idea of not having a biological body) and have eventually realized that overpopulation is a serious problem for both humanity and the environment, the Earth population is just a few dozen millions plus twice as many ``computerized people''. Since there are so few people, natural resources are abundant and there is enough energy and matter for everyone to live comfortably, whether virtual or not. After a few thousands of years of virtual time (i.e. a few years of real time), a team of physicists discovered how to construct space elevators, as well as how to obtain exotic matter to construct an Alcubierre drive. The news article says they'll be ready to start launching whoever wants to go into space in maximum five years. They're also working on being able to send of biological people into space, but that's harder since they're so fragile and have so many requirements, so it might take another twenty years or so. Since you don't want to wait, you execute sleep(157788000) and wake up just in time. You (the one in the spaceship) start exploring the galaxy. You drop off backups of yourself as well as flight plan and path updates every once in a while. You wander around aimlessly, exploring star system after star system. "Frank Drake was full of shit", you think to yourself, though you've only checked a tiny fraction of the galaxy. Finally you return to Earth (after a hundred thousand real time years) to discover that humans have now spread to and colonized many of the neighbouring star systems. A good idea, since there have been quite a number of deadly cataclysms on Earth in the meantime. You are pleased to find out that mind uploading can now be performed non-destructively, and that mind downloading and body replication are also possible (the mechanics of which are indistinguishable from wizardry). Other people have been lucky enough to meet with aliens who have also gotten to about the same stage. In particular, one species originates from a planet called
The Land of Lisp, and their computer science skills are
literally magic.
The options are ordered by probability, most likely first.