catvincent: TOPIC: Upgrades
Here’s mine. The single upgrade that, for any kind of complex kit, is absolutely necessary.
I Want The Friendly Manual. For human consciousness. Neo-cortex to brainstem, and all associated areas where consciousness may live, such as in the gut - or even non-locally (or at least know why it doesn’t happen if it really doesn’t.)
Inbuilt, reader-specific instructions for full comprehension, and direct mental control, of each aspect of one’s own consciousness - its level of feedback from the various senses, as an example - either singly or in combination. This would give a new skillset which allows from pretty much everything from vastly improved health from improved biofeedback (it’d be like having gauges…) to experimentally trying on various mental states and illnesses for time-limited runs (ie your regular instance of Conscious3.9 reboots, after taking existing instance as storage) to running variant personalities to use at whim to being able to fully visualise the myth-pattern of all the major death-based initiation… make yourself near-dead for x hours and run the full death/rebirth Osirian-type rite, but with an actual Near Death Experience. That you can survive.
Mostly, I want the gauges. And the dreams - that you can set with given parameters, adjust threat level etc… program your own dreams - not just for fun, but as a way of hacking your subconscious also - using linguistic programming on your own subconscious directly. Train yourself to tell yourself what to learn while you dream.
For starters. After testing the enhanced sexual response suite. Extensively.
And eventually… the suite is the necessary first installed kit for functional human immortality. Next step is medical nanos that can obey the same command system your Consciousness normally runs on.
With that lot, I might have enough time to think… and what to do next.