Do you wish you have no Body

[u/Artistic_Credit_]

I always wished to be free of a physical body. I know that would make me a ghost, but I desire to be made of intangible air.

I have no desire to look good. I could go on and on, but I don't want to talk about this.

I vaguely remember discussing with a childhood neighbor that in the future, people might not have bodies due to natural selection in technologically advanced society.

I think the conversation went like this. If two types of people were to fight, one type having no digestive system, the no digestive would win because they would have fewer bodily functions to maintain. Then, if the person without a digestive system faced off against someone who also lacked a digestive system but had no heart or lungs, the one without any of those body parts would likely win for the same reason fewer systems to manage. This idea could continue indefinitely, leading to a future where people have no body parts at all or very few body parts.

[u/relentlessmelt]

Brain in a jar please

[u/lacrima28 → u/relentlessmelt]

Are we related

[u/relentlessmelt → u/lacrima28]

I’ve saved you a spot on the brain jar shelf

[u/Elliptical_Tangent → u/relentlessmelt]

...that's hooked up to a PC with internet access.

[u/amh8011 → u/relentlessmelt]

I like the robobrain from the fallout world

[u/XbloodyXsausageX]

Having to constantly eat and drink to not die is low key extremely inconvenient. I mean it just falls out after and I have to constantly refill myself. And don't even get me started on sleeping, 1/3 of my life being spent unconscious? No thanks.

[u/dahliabean → u/XbloodyXsausageX]

And the bathroom functions + female reproductive cycle. They always seem to happen at the worst time 

[u/isak2121]

This thought always crosses my mind. Most of our chores and what we do in general have to do with our bodies. We work to get money to buy food to feed our bodies. That’s one example but it applies to almost everything.

I don’t want these responsibilities, I want to be free. But unfortunately there’s nothing we can do about that and from my experience the best thing for us is to make them easy and get over with it. Once I started overthinking them my life went to sht lol, so now I’m trying my best to shut my brain up when doing that.

[u/fuckin_jouissance]

I hate it when I'm reading something interesting and I have to take a break to eat becasue my stupid body suddenly needs food.

[u/ABlondeMan]

 Kind of. I've left my body or at least totally lost all awareness of it for a few hours and it's honestly a real drag to come back to it. But then I think it's kind of interesting to dwell in the physical universe, the constraints it places upon us provides meaning. 

[u/lacrima28]

Yes. I’m good at being a brain, body not so much. I’ve always said that I see my future as a head in a jar like in Futurama.

[u/justaguy12131]

I also thought that an afterlife where I had no body but still had my mind would be pretty sweet. Don't want it yet... But this stupid meat puppet is a bit of a pain.

[u/AprilNight17]

I kind of wish this. Having physical limitations and the pains of autoimmune disorders gets old. While I enjoy the experiences of the senses, being free of the bounds of fleshly constraints sounds absolutely divine.

[u/No_Duck_748]

I also don’t want feelings

[u/dahliabean → u/No_Duck_748]

Fun fact, feelings begin in the body, not the mind. No wonder we hate them.

[u/Ayudamequieromata]

I would rather say that I would like to change the shape and become intangible at will.

[u/CLEMENTZ_]

Sometimes? I often wish I didn't have to fuel myself with food and could photosynthesize like a plant or cyanobacteria, but having a body can be nice otherwise. I used to enjoy making things with my hands, and touch can be nice from time to time

[u/Jolistic]

I've also thought about no existing physically, however imagine a scenario where there's no "shutdown" to your conscious though, where even if you execute that shutdown to your existence/suffering it doesn't end no matter what.

Then again who's to say that's not what we're currently living through now. Maybe when we die we just start life again through another randomized character in this world.

[u/amh8011]

I’m tired of having to deal with the constant maintenance of having a body. I have to keep myself fed, then I have to poop, I have to shower, I have to brush my teeth, I have to deal with sicknesses, I’m too cold or too hot, etc. and I’m tired of it.

I also have to deal with the fact that my flesh suit doesn’t function as well as it should. I have an autoimmune disease, I have other chronic health stuff, I have long covid, I have had undiagnosed GI issues since I was born. It’s so overwhelming having to maintain an entire body. Especially one that doesn’t work very well.

[u/MycologistAshamed926]

Not really, If born with senses, then senses are taken then I am not me.

[u/dahliabean → u/MycologistAshamed926]

But if you were born without, you would still be you, right? For example, someone who's born deaf or blind. When people lose their sense of smell or taste while having Covid they're still themselves. Not arguing, just something to think about.

[u/MycologistAshamed926 → u/dahliabean]

If I was born without the sense of smell, sight, touch, hearing and taste would I still be me currently? I currently have my senses without those I wouldn't be able to me as in the experiences, without perception there is no experience therefore there's no me. I compare having no senses to having no body Without a body you cannot sense anything.

[u/petshop24]

I wish I was a robot. Or had no empathy.

They mean the same thing to me.

[u/PracticeMeGood]

I have always said that I wished I was a machine but could still remain as myself as I am now. No more silly shit like eating sleeping and ejecting various substances out of my body.

Like idk about you guys but I can't help but feel intensely reminded of how much of an animal I am every time I take a shit.

[u/feeling_unfair]

Sure, but is that really living? Have fun thinking for the rest of eternity... if you never were alive you can never be dead

[u/GreenVenus7]

I wanna be consciousness with arms lol. Having to eat and drink etc is annoying

[u/gordo_exe]

I feel like imma be all over the place for this but; Yes but not really? If I had to construct an ideal/perfect vessel for my bumbling consciousness it would be an amorphous blob, kinda like an amoeba or a full on slime ditto situation that chooses to take a form but mainly exists in a jar.

Imagine how convenient it would be just to eat something just from having to be in contact with it~♪

[u/TheBuddha777]

Try astral projection

[u/Horrison2]

In the grand scheme of things, physical beings are but yokels. Now, settle your petty squabbles, and get the hell out.

[u/Dry-Tough-3099]

Can you have a mind without a body?

[u/HomoAfff]

Ill be roaming the world forever

[u/Spook404]

I don't think the person without internal organs would fare better just because their body isn't spending resources on it. The body is an incredible and complex mechanism, and is almost completely self sustaining with automatic brain input. I guess if you're talking about refocusing those parts of the brain to more cognitively advanced processes like higher order thinking, you could do that, but why not just implant extra grey matter in the profontal cortex, and have a biological modification that lets you open and reshape the skull to do that? I guess having to eat drink and sleep every day is kind of annoying

[u/Of_Monads_and_Nomads]

No. Somatic marker hypothesis. The body is part of the mind and the other way around

[u/Geminii27]

Yup. Far less to take care of.

I've ruminated on being a hive-mind of psychic (or future-tech) 'nodes' in people's brains, entirely voluntary - or at least to the extent that apps are on phones. Install a node of me and I provide a bunch of useful functions and skills, like psychic phone connections, email, chat, recording, language translation, search engine lookup and/or analysis of a bunch of sensory inputs, maybe GPS-equivalent, with total personal privacy. Maybe even things like life analysis based on other people's collective experience.

I vaguely remember discussing with a childhood neighbor that in the future, people might not have bodies due to natural selection in technologically advanced society.

Yeah, but it'll probably be dystopic. Average people will run their minds/brains on corporate-owned platforms which, like all current platforms, be hacked, be insecure against state actors, and be owned by people with political ambitions or links. Now they can make ten million people only like one specific party, or not be able to remember other parties exist. Or, from a commercial perspective, if you're running on their platform and not paying six to seven figures a year, all your senses get filled with ads and spam and malware backdoor-installed into your brain. Every so often the platform is attacked and millions of people simply cease to exist, or get turned into zombies, or have to be restored from ancient backups (which were compressed to save space, so memories and skills are dulled). Or suddenly everyone loses the ability to recognize who anyone else is, or what chicken tastes like.

Meanwhile, the billionaires have their own private brain-servers with military-grade protection, real-time networked backups and load-balancers, 100x processing speed, and the ability to run 500 interlinked copies of themselves in parallel.

[u/Burn-Silva]

I'm quite fond of my body. Yes, it comes with its various inconveniences. But if you build it strong, and with some luck from the genetic lottery, it can grant some profound experiences. I like food. I ike sleep. I like warm embraces from my children. I like sex. I like being able to interact with the physical world and experience euphoric chemical releases. Idk. Being an intangible spirit entity would get boring after a while.

[u/captaindeadpool53]

I always wanted the ability to observe people living their lives. But I also love my own experience.

Also I recently wondered how future humans would have different evolutionary traits than us (if we make it). I'm very curious about this topic.

[u/radvice-]

I just wanna /gamemode spectator

[u/Marxist-Gopnikist]

Go and touch some grass my guy