Just got an audience with the creator, gave you an opportunity to choose one organ to enhance/reduce its functionality; Cause apparently the creator can “grant your wish”
- what organ would you choose?
- what functionalities would you add/deduct?
- why such?
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Without a doubt, the larynx/esophagus connection. It’s one of the biggest design flaws in the human body. Beyond the discomfort and coughing that occurs when food or drink “goes down the wrong pipe,” there’s the possibility of sudden, agonizing death at random when you’re just taking in sustenance. Eating and breathing through the same tube is for chumps.
But evolution ended up giving us two external tubes to breathe. My conclusion is that its better to have redundancy in external tubes openings for air.
So, to avoid the efficiency of a branch that lets us eat and breathe from our mouths would you make it so we can’t breathe from our mouths and we still have 2 tubes to breathe as redundancy? If so, where would you place the extra tube opening? Head or further away? Toe or back would help act as a snorkel, I’d think.
Good question, I hadn’t really thought about it much. I’m just jealous of dogs, who can eat and breathe simultaneously. Evolution dropped our larynx down low so that we can talk, but evolution only does the best it can with what it has to work with, and a magical redesign could theoretically do better. I wouldn’t mind a blowhole, as it would make snorkeling a lot easier!
Gimme dat blowhole mod
It would be nice if my pancreas actually worked all the way.
Other than that, i’d like to be able to fill my balls with helium so I could float around.This is what I first thought of. Now I’m picturing someone floating in the air, limp, with two hotair balloon sized balls… Lovely.
I hope you realize that floating objects generally orient themselves in such a way that the most buoyant parts are at the top. So while you could float around, you would be hanging by your balls the entire time…
You have to balance on top.
My brain. Just let me fucking fall asleep.
Spinal column. Hands down. Fix things so there’s no more disk problems, no more pain. Make spinal nervers regenerate. It is part of the very core of our being and when it doesn’t work correctly it ruins everything else.
Probably my brain. If I could far surpass the most intelligent people in the world then I’m sure I could capitalize on that in tons of ways, probably even in financial ways by charging for shows of my intellect
Never rotting teeth would be great.
Upgrade cells. So they don’t degenerate with time.
I would choose my brain. I would add the ability for it to balance my moods and accept that I will never have an SO again—without having to be medicated in perpetuity.
I would modify the human brain to reduce tribalism and increase empathy.
This precisely. Maybe “us vs them” was useful when we lived in caves and resources were limited, but now, we should theoretically have enough food and housing that everyone could be comfortable.
But, Eisenhower’s “military industrial complex” has bogarted all the resources, and emphasized tribalism by saying it’s really “their” fault, where “they” are anyone not like “us”. When we’re all struggling together.
Definitely my brain. I think I’m experiencing trauma-related deterioration. I used to have a pretty high IQ, but I can feel the functionality fading. I wish my brain could handle the stress better.
I want the power up to prevent this same question that’s been posted 10,000 different times in 500 different ways to ever be posted again.
My back. Getting old sucks.
Eyesight. Because the glory.
Added intelligence upgrade for all the ideas I just can’t handle on my own. I feel like I’m floating around in an overpopulated world which makes methods to achieve anything a PhD level discussion.
Brain - I want to be able to perform real multitasking.
