1.If you could expand your lifespan permanently via scientific-technological means, would you do it?
Yes. I have nothingness issues.
2.If you could modify your central nervous system to eliminate all pain, would you do it?
No thanks, that's dangerous. There's a graphic image in the link, so if you don't want to look at that, this sentence gets the point across: "Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis may be misdiagnosed for leprosy, based on similar symptoms of severe injuries to the hands and feet."
3.If you could modify your central nervous system to put you in a constant state of euphoria, would you do it?
No, that would totally cut me off from any further self-discovery and possibly muffle my ability to respond to crises. Courage isn't the absence of fear and despair, but how we transform them. Those feelings are signals for me to make a choice. Also, I think my creative abilities would tank if I only had one emotion to draw from, producing flat and boring work that no one who doesn't also have the nervous system modification could relate to, and that I wouldn't even have the dignity of being dissatisfied with. Basically...this would be to annihilate myself and become the drug, which is the opposite of what I live for.
4.If you could drastically change your body to something different, would you do it?
Yes. I'd like to not have to spend so much time maintaining it, and to be able to survive at my full capacities in a wider range of environmental conditions. Taken to an invulnerable conclusion, this would be economically hilarious. No more need for food, sleep, or shelter means money would lose much of its weight as an essential. I can see myself making good abuse of this.
5.If you could drastically increase your intelligence, would you do it?
I'd need more detail, but this sounds good so far. A person with boosted intelligence could potentially do a lot of social and scientific good, although the psychological isolation could introduce a crippling factor to this. I might also take less pride in whatever I produced if said productiveness wouldn't have happened had I not done the brain thing. It would feel like a less authentic shortcut, somehow less honorable than accomplishing something great in a battle victory against the limits I was born with. Like these aren't my
personal accomplishments, but the new brain's and the doctors' who designed it, channeled through my body but not truly of it. On the other hand, the choice to get the brain augment was mine, so it also makes sense to personally claim the results of that choice.