Hi popsy. Hope you’re well? I know you’re talking about the film- but reading your comment made me think of a person actually having their brain loaded into a “smart” lawn mower. Then I thought of Freejack....and then I thought about how data tends to work online and the “cloud” where corporations own big server farms and would likely want to charge you money.... a dead person.... how do you pay for hosting and bandwidth?
Conclusion: a dystopian future where the human mind can be digitized to avoid death- but is made an “indentured servant” after death.... powering smart devices or in collectives running a next generation super computer.... all to pay the bills. The dark joke of the modern world for decades has been a persons work would keep them busy after they die.... perhaps....
In all seriousness- I won’t go into it in depth here- but it’s very unlikely based on current understanding of the brain that you could truly be digitized. We liken brains to computers or software- but evidence suggests there aren’t “files” on the brain- you can’t just “view” images or memories. The physical structure of the brain is what makes all these things. So a digitized person would likely need to run on an “emulator” with a 3 or 4 D total recreation of their brain as a “virtual box” and even then- most classic game players can tell you that emulation often fails to perfectly capture the original in every regard. The digital you would not only be a new entity philosophically- but would likely not pass a fidelity check against the “real” you even if identical conditions could be controlled for a comparison.
Nah, I've died IRL a few times. Shit gets real sketch when you start pondering how you come back. Like... a bullet? can't exactly escape the hole the bullet leaves... but say... a cracked skull? Not only can you mend that, you can gold fault the cracks. So... ultimately idk where this is going, prolly Jumanji.
I kid... it was an existential nightmare and this is just an eggshell on top the compost pile.
Goddamnit that's one letter away from being YODA.
You only die again. <----video games.