I’ll start by saying that I’d get rid of the need to shit. I’m pretty sure everyone can agree that it’s unpleasant.
I’m pretty sure everyone can agree that it’s unpleasant.
I strongly disagree.
Personally I’d remove the need for sleep and effectively increase my lifespan by 3rd.
That thing when you accidentally swallow the smallest amount of spit the wrong way and start coughing like mad
Sleep.
Welcome to 22 hour work shifts, with twenty minute breaks.
Twenty minute whats?
Am salaried and also had the exact same thought. I haven’t had a work break in … 10 years at least. My fault, yeah.
Haha. Not what I meant but I guess it works too.
Idk sounds like commie talk
Surprised nobody said cell degradation.
You now can live for as long as you’re not killed whilst physically keeping an appearance of an ~30 y.o. This also technically prevents cancer.
In the end there can be only one!
I like this, but you can’t have kids and be immortal, that’s a recipe for overpopulation.
Would enjoy not aging past adulthood (or not past 45, that was my “vampire age”), but life has to end unless you want all the same people around forever and no or very few new ones.
Sleep. It used to take up nearly a third of my life. Since having Long COVID, it’s closer to half my life.
Honestly, think of what we could get done if we had all that extra time…
Toenail growth.
Cutting nails is annoying, and toenails are awkward and stupid.
Required to grow so they recover from damage.
Following the spirit of my post, I would assume that toenails would no longer receive damage and would hopefully last through a person’s lifetime.
Side thought, it would be nice if teeth didn’t rot…
Does the need for particular hormones count as a single bodily function? Asking for a post menopausal person.
Sure, why not? I guess you might as well just say you would like to do away with menopause if you could, that works 👍
Senescence maybe?
Remove need to sleep. You would get ~33% more time every day.
We’d just be exploited for our labor 33% more.
I can’t wait to work 24 hours a day! No pesky sleep getting in the way anymore.
Sleep’s the only thing stopping you from working 24 hours?
It’s the only thing stopping the people in charge of our society from mandating 16-hour days
Back pain is not painful anymore, but rather pleasant now
Eliminate the need to sleep.
As others have mentioned:
Welcome to 24 hour work days…
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Well you didn’t say for everyone… So maybe he meant just for himself :)
Dangit!
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Consciousness
Good news, we can actually do all of the above already!
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add consciousness have kids
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remove consciousness die
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alter consciousness do drugs
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Sweating. I wanna be exclusively water cooled. None of this evaporative cooling BS. Just swap fluid every six months to a year. I always need moving air anyways…
To be water cooled we would need some kind of radiator, I guess moving blood through your extremities could work but seems risky from an evolutionary perspective. Like if you’re hot from running from a predator your hands and feet would be flush with blood.
Also I think evaporative cooling could help you maintain a body temp of 38 when the ambient temp is somewhat warmer than that like 45 or so. I don’t think a radiator could do that.
Sorry to get all practical in this thread about not needing to poop. I was just kinda thinking out loud.
All answers are valid here, we’re all basically thinking and daydreaming out loud.
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It’s selfish, but hair growth. Hair removal steals so much of my limited time.
Sneezing/snot production. Sure, it can feel amazing. But the sudden urgency to stop everything I’m doing and focus on my nose or risk a disgusting eruption of green mucus all over my face in a public setting is something I could do without.
Also, I’m waiting for someone with medical knowledge to come in here and mention Prions or something else silently devastating to the body.
