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 Ooh, had to think about this one.
I've voted organic, but it'd depend on context.

The current direction of real tech would make me worry about a synthetic body being hackable remotely.
Otherwise, the capacity to self modify more easily is probably a winner.
Then again, with sufficiently advanced technology, why not just modify biological systems?

@fudge_the_sphinx Very real concerns! I'll admit that I was sort of brushing that aside in favor of "if all else were ideal what would you want most" but that can't avoid being informed by what's around us now – that is, the likelihood of unprincipled folks directly screwing with others' autonomy as opposed to just boxing them in via other means (we live in a society).

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