As far as transferring your brain into a clone of your own body
>if you're elderly, you can get a new young body. (probably won't make you immortal because the brain itself ages, but I'd bet the young blood would revitalize your brain a great deal and extend life)
>any severe bodily injury or illness you may have had is a non-issue, as you can just replace your body
>any human ailment or injury that doesn't kill you immediately and doesn't affect the brain is now essentially non-existent
>lost a limb? got an STD? got tinnitus? no probs, just get this new body
>breakdown of society as human being struggle to cope with the idea that being born young and aging until you become a shriveled raisin is no longer how things are
As far as transferring your brain to a clone of another person
>government would have strict laws that keep track of who's who, but there'd surely be a black market for criminals both for identity theft and just to get away with basically any crime then get a brand new face
>men and women come to understand each other more, recognizing that all are human. this is because most people probably would like to swap sexes at some point just to try it out. they'd understand what it's like on the other side
>EXTREME identity issues all across humanity. loss of understanding of who you are.
>almost all humans on earth are now tall and beautiful—our vanity reflected in our choices
>all the more subtle, unforeseen consequences of the fact that the body you're born with is now, for the first time, not the body you HAVE to have all your life
>at some point education gets focused on much, much more heavily because it becomes so much more important that your brain is the one part of you that matters most