What physical changes would improve human abilities and comfort?

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around hypothetical physical changes to humans aimed at enhancing abilities and comfort. Participants explore various modifications related to thermoregulation, ambidexterity, memory, breathing, and physical attributes like wings and strength. The scope includes conceptual and speculative ideas rather than established scientific proposals.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant suggests enhancing the brain's thermoregulation capabilities to better manage temperature differences, particularly during physical exertion in cold weather.
  • Another proposes the ability to turn off certain thought patterns at will and making feet as functional as hands.
  • Several participants express a desire for improved ambidexterity, noting the limitations of one-sided physical capabilities.
  • A participant mentions the need for enhanced memory and recall abilities, reflecting on personal experiences of forgetting previously known information.
  • One idea includes making circular breathing easier for improved respiratory efficiency.
  • Another participant proposes the addition of wings for flight, while expressing concerns about the necessary anatomical changes, such as hollow bones, and suggests the desire for full-spectrum vision and increased strength.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants present a variety of individual ideas and suggestions without reaching a consensus. There are multiple competing views on what physical changes would be most beneficial, and the discussion remains unresolved.

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Participants' suggestions are speculative and depend on various assumptions about human physiology and the feasibility of such changes. No mathematical or scientific validation is provided for the proposed modifications.

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...what physical changes would you make to humans and why?
(I beg you, please try to keep suggestions at least half-sensible)

It always annoys me that when I cycle in cold weather, I am too warm from the exertion, and yet my hands are freezing. I'd give the part of the brain that controls thermoregulation the ability to compensate for temperature differences around the body. If the body is too warm but the hands and face too cold, then rather than divert blood away from the extremities, making them colder and the rest of the body warmer, it is fed towards them so that they are warmed and the blood flowing back to the warm areas is cooled. Problem solved!
 
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matthyaouw said:
...what physical changes would you make to humans and why?
(I beg you, please try to keep suggestions at least half-sensible)
It always annoys me that when I cycle in cold weather, I am too warm from the exertion, and yet my hands are freezing. I'd give the part of the brain that controls thermoregulation the ability to compensate for temperature differences around the body. If the body is too warm but the hands and face too cold, then rather than divert blood away from the extremities, making them colder and the rest of the body warmer, it is fed towards them so that they are warmed and the blood flowing back to the warm areas is cooled. Problem solved!

This is very hard but part of the answer, be able to turn off certain thought
patterns in the brain at will, make feet as useful as hands.
 
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Make both sides of the body work equally well.
If it wasn't for my left foot, god knows what a striker i would have been in fotball.:wink:
 
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Make both sides of the body work equally well.
If it wasn't for my left foot, god knows what a striker i would have been in fotball.:wink:

Good one. I'd love to be ambidextrous
 
I would give us improved memory, and memory recall.
I spent 30 minutes looking something up, only to find that I knew all about...some 10 years ago
 
make circular breathing easier

I'd kill for that benefit.
 
Wings would be nice (in addition to arms, not in place of), but I don't know that I'd want the hollow bones and stuff needed to make one light enough for flight. Wouldn't mind full-spectrum vision, either. That would have to be deliberately selectable, so as not to be overwhelmed by CMB, gamma bursters, CNN, etc.. A lot more strength (Spider-Man class:-p ) would eliminate the need for a lot of expensive tools such as impact guns, engine hoists, and the like.
 

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