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To me this reads as a really complicated form of physician assisted suicide. I also think the marketability of this would be complicated, as most adult people would want to start over in their teens or twenties, not as a baby.

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Starting as a baby gives you a better chance at building a foundation for the kind of lifestyle you want when you reach your teens or twenties. Those baby years will go by quickly anyway.

It isn’t really suicide because your consciousness isn’t extinguished, you just end up unconscious for a bit while you restructure.

If you start as a baby your body is too small and weak to get anything on your own, so the foundation of your life is actually built by the people taking care of you. How could you customize being helpless to suit a later presumed lifestyle? I also struggle to see how all the content stored in an adult brain could be transferred to a smaller-sized baby brain, when the brain grows as your body matures.

Who is going to raise a baby with the mind of an adult?

Advertisers? Sponsoring baby content makers, baby athletes, baby celebrities... babies with six packs wearing designer diapers, riding their hipster e-strollers. Shit's dystopian, man.

Well this would be included in your payment for the service, a day care type home for regenerated humans. Maybe covered by insurance even.

Porn companies.

Paul Atreides and the Fremen.

Family? Are we so broken that it doesn't pop out as an obvious choice? In China (lived there 10 years) I feel like many would accept this without even a moment's hesitation.

So the scenario plays out: you get too old to have fun, so you metamorphosize back into a baby, which your now-adult children have to take care of. This is just as labor-intensive as care for the elderly you would have been, but now they have to go through the psychological horrors of knowing their mother/father is now a child in their care, adding to their load of possibly already trying to raise a family of their own?

No, like putting that aside, because I assume that it’ll exist. I’m thinking more along the lines of, how do you satisfy the emotional needs of an adult who is trapped in a body that is not responsive to them? If I behaved like I do as an adult to my parents and teachers but I was a child I’d spend my entire youth in the timeout corner.

You'd have to pray your caregivers give you food that you actually like before you get teeth and the ability to walk.

Or a horrifically fascinating take on religious belief in reincarnation.

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