interview thingy

[darkoshi]

andrewducker was nice enough to ask me some interesting questions...

1) You get to redesign your body from the ground up. Describe.

Height - about 6 inches more. Corresponding to that, feet would need to be bigger.
Legs - without that flabby bit below the buttocks, and with the muscles slightly more defined.
Stomach/belly - reduce its tendency to balloon outward after having eaten.
Lungs and heart - stronger, for ability to jog/run longer/faster without becoming winded.
Spine/neck - perfectly aligned.
Back - more cushioning muscle/flesh over the spine and ribs.
Arms - with the muscles slightly more defined.
Fingers - somewhat longer.
Breasts - remove. Replace with chest muscles to aesthetically balance the rest of my physique.
Skin/pores - no bumps, acne, greasy skin, body odor, etc. No becoming wrinkled and flabby with age. No more fat accumulation than is aesthetically pleasing to oneself.
Skin & Hair - ability to change to any color/hue/shade/pattern at will (like a chameleon, sort of, except mentally controlled).
Creasemarks on forehead - make them indiscernible except when I am actually creasing my forehead.
Lips - reduce their tendency to stick together.
Voice - slightly deeper and with greater range / greater ability to sing in tune.
Nose - remove all allergies and tendencies towards runniness, post-nasal-drip and congestion.
Eyes - perfect vision, including very good low-light-vision and perhaps an ability to see infrared, as long as it was something that could be turned on/off at will. Perhaps having a changeable eye-color based upon one's mood.
Immune System - immunity to all diseases and cancer, but not necessarily to short term illnesses which don't cause permanent physical damage. The ability to heal/repair/regenerate body after any non-fatal physical damage such as loss of limb or severed nerves, etc.
Blood - add a nonharmful substance that would make the blood taste bad to mosquitoes and all other skin-biting insects.
General - body would be impervious to cold.

Sexual organs - remove menstruation and ability to get pregnant. Significantly reduce lubrication/slime creation. No pubic hair. Perhaps replace clitoris with a retractible penis and route urinary tract through it. No testes, sperm, etc.
Or perhaps even better, replace all sexual organs with a sexual nerve-system spread throughout the skin/body. The nerves would become sensitive when one was in a state of arousal, and sex would be a sharing of touch in such a state.

Perhaps remove the entire digestive system and replace with chlorophyll in skin, or something similar, yet with the same amount of energy produced as by eating.

Brain - telepathic / empathic powers, for sensing other peoples' thoughts and/or feelings, as long as they weren't choosing to block such contact.

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Some of the above items would only be desirable as long as other peoples' bodies were the same way.


2) Do you think that emotions are learned or inbuilt? Why?
Inbuilt. Emotions seem to be due to varying chemical states of the brain, fluctuating build-ups of certain chemicals due to stresses, etc. I believe people may learn some control over their emotions; how to indirectly trigger such build-ups... But it just doesn't seem likely that emotions, like anger, would be learned from scratch. One might learn the typical responses to emotions, such as acting violently in response to anger, but actually feeling the anger would be instinctive.

3) If you were suddenly rich, how would you spend your time?
Probably much the same as I do now. I really don't know. I'd buy myself a cell-phone to keep in the car for emergency use.

4) What's the activity you engage in that uses your imagination the most?
Pseudo-sexual fantasies, probably. Or considering topics like #1.

5) What question are you most afraid of being asked?
If I knew what it was, it wouldn't be nearly as frightening, since there would have been opportunity to come up with a response to it.
One scary question, only if it weren't hypothetical, would be, if I was given a simple and painless way to die, right now, would I take it?


If anyone would like to be interviewed by me, let me know... and I'll try.