What are some small things we should change about the human body?
What are some small things we should change about the human body?
Ripping off a post I just saw in the Isaac Arthur subreddit. Imagining we work out the technical ability. Examples they suggested were:
- No periods
- No balding
- No nausea
- No body odor
- Resistance to obesity and muscle wasting
Let's put a cap on how much excess energy the body can store as fat. Sure, some amount is fine and has a number of uses, but just let me poop some excess calories out. I'd only need more if I were to hibernate.
Thinking on it, I want to hibernate too, please.
While we're at it from animals, how about upping some of our regeneration? Teeth don't regrow? Naw, constant regen please. I get too big of a cut and I get a scar? Let's let everything regrow from being lost if you can survive without it. Also why doesn't the brain heal? Most important part of the body and each crack's there for life. Let me get my serotonin back already, slacker.
Also what's with this getting assigned a gender thing? You don't even get to know what it means before you have one! And then we build society as if this coin flip was the seed to the tree of life. Let people choose and switch naturally, please and thank you.
Just one universal blood type please
We should not get our adult teeth at 7 then no more ever. We need at least one more set.
I don't think balding is useful, agree that could go.
Fertility should be manageable without using all the devices, hormones, etc. Like it should be a positive choice not a default state we have to harm ourselves to avoid. And I don't think we need menopause either. Just turn on fertility only to get pregnant.
(ETA- I also think sexually transmitted diseases should not exist at all, they seem like religious fundamentalist biological warfare, but not sure what change in a human body could accomplish this and leave the pleasure intact. )
Fix our spine and knees
Appetite is 100% linked to calories needed. You still enjoy food, but the moment you swallow enough calories for whatever you did since the last time you ate, you have zero appetite and anything put in front of you loses all appeal.
Terrible for survival situations, great for modern life where an abundance of food is a bigger problem than a scarcity.
No more accidentally biting my tongue or the inside of my cheek while eating. Sometimes I'm just excited for some good food and it just gets completely ruined :(
No more fucking hemorrhoids!
Appendix not coming from the factory is a big one. A slightly better immune system that can get through the blood/brain barrier and kill rabies/amoebas, and other brain infections like TB (without shredding brain tissue) too. If a virus like rabies gets past that barrier, you are 1 0 0 % B O N E D as your immune system is largely locked out.
Wider uterus/vagina too. Human babies have massive heads that don't fit through too well. It's like an orange on a toothpick. Making a smaller baby could be a possibility, but survivability would potentially go down.
For very tall people: a larger and stronger heart organ. A second one acting like a smaller turbo would also help. Heh. Failover cluster hearts. You'd probably have to have stronger veins and tissues as a result though.
A lot of great ideas here, but also sinus are such a terrible design. Please no more sinuses.
I don't care about balding (and I have been since 20s). Just a healthy body reset every decade or two/whenever necessary. Get the metabolic rate up, clean up all the junk from the environment that has polluted the DNA and reduced the telomere lengths (whatever the correlation/causation there). Just a "take the body to the shop" type of repair possible. A chance to live for centuries.
Body hair should have multiple sliders like a video game avatar. Wanna be furry all over like a Persian cat or a poodle? No problem. Want to be smooth as a dolphin? Also no problem.
shoulder-mounted laser guns
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Optimised learning throughout our entire life. Better focus and improved memory to take in knowledge more effectively
Our bodies need some trace metals, problem is it can't differentiate between metals it needs and metals that will kill it. "Hell yeah, delicious zinc" as it noms down on lead instead of pooping it out.
we need more micro-plastics in us
Deactivate-able hair follicles
Like chromatophores so you can have hair where you want and not where you don't. Maybe it just takes a long time to transition 🤔
Reduce max fingernail length pls
Just make us all shape shifters so we can do whatever we want.
The ability to breathe underwater - or if that is too much of an upgrade to ask for, the ability to hold your breath for much longer periods of time so that we could spend significant time underwater.
Especially seeing as the planet's surface is over two thirds water!
Choose your puberty
Penis size, premature ejaculation, long male refractory period, and ED.
Wait that's not all guys? /s
Complete body function control. Like no more emergency shits, you can time the bowel movements and just go once every 36 hours.
Also the reservoir guys have when we stand up pissing. How bout we don't have 20ml piss left in the urethra when we retract the penis?
No nearsightedness/farsightedness
No arched noses
Everyone can breathe through their noses silently
No pectus carinatum/excavatum
Digestive tract hits limit on sugar digested and rejects the rest
No loosening of sensitive hair follicles; make every scalp hair difficult to remove/fall out
Change that double helix into a quadruple one for extra redundancy, making it harder for it to gain irreparable damage. Also, make it a loop rather than a straight line so the ends don't get shorter with each replication. And remove that dementia bug that has a greater chance of showing up the longer run time is
Stop aging at 20
better concentration and more logical thinking.
i hate how i put people into boxes all the time.
plus make them lie for personal gain less.
The ability to turn off some senses temporarily
Better repairing, see Deadpool. Cancer, missing limbs, teeth, w/e.
Would complete immunity to radiation be a small change?
Would it actually be detrimental in the long run?
Pros: No more cancer
Cons: No more natural evolution
A utility panel with usb ports, hard reset button, xd card slot, s-video port, etc, could be very useful.
Maybe installed on a butt cheek or back of a calf?
In all seriousness, a spinal realignment feature. Something that resets the joints & muscles in your back to factory default.
Maybe body odor could be an opt-in? For, like, sexy times between men who like that kind of thing...
Dual opposable thumbs, now we can grab and open the water bottle with one hand!
If the body couls generate muscle without needing to excersize first that'd be cool. But I guess that's why steroids were invented and those have some side effects
being a dragon would be pretty dope
dual redundancy for every organ, and the ability for a damaged or removed organ to grow back.
Just make it repair as well as the "immortal" animals out there (they can obviously die of accidents or diseases but not of old age).
No body hair!
chef's kiss perfect list.
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Periods. Fuck periods. There has to be a better way.