In this, I presume that your consciousness is presently housed in a human body. (You have my sympathies.)

If you were magically transported into time and place where bodies can be nearly anything and you could choose to inhabit practically anything you wanted, would you be:

@ElectricKeet What's the difference between an organic brain and a synthetic one here?

@Tetra That's a really good question!

Some folks are uneasy about loading their consciousness onto a different substrate, fearing a lossy transfer or dramatic personality changes. I'll admit that I wrote the poll assuming no such changes, but different folks have different comfort levels!

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@ElectricKeet Yeah, I kinda figured those would be the major concerns but you didn't specify (and I find it hard to imagine many people would be in for it if they didn't know how much of themself would make it across). I'm a fan of the old-fashioned organic aesthetic, so I guess with how the categories are it actually doesn't change my answer

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