Uploaded-Consciousness Society

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I want to know you anons' thoughts on how(/if?) culture would evolve if lots of people uploaded/transitioned their minds to the internet, in some future where this is possible. Ignore the issue of whether you can actually put your consciousness in a computer, please, assume it's possible and completely safe ITT.

How would people behave differently in the wired? Would we all just artificially overflow our pleasure senses indefinitely? Would we mindmerge into human-instrumentality collective consciousnesses? Would we primarily spend time in constructed virtual 'spaces', or would it be more abstract? Would there be meaning in being an individual, if we all run like programs? Would we serialize ourselves? What would we seek out in our lives? Would we run HappyLife.exe and wipe our memories?

If there's still a culture, what would it look like? How would it evolve from current internet culture, and how would it reflect the above questions? If not everybody's abandoned meatspace, how would it affect irl society? What would normies think about wired people?

I wanna explore all the possibilities. What are your thoughts and ideas?