[nkrisc]

> As long as you can maintain the brain as is,

That’s the question, can a human sized body that can fly additionally support a human sized brain? I suspect you would have to spend nearly every waking minute eating to support both. Or at least a substantial portion of your day. No time for hacking, gotta eat.

You’ll probably have to pay full up front for this, as no one will finance you since you’ll be too busy foraging for sugary fruit or carrying livestock off to your eyrie to work a job to pay it back.

Finally, this raises another question I won’t even attempt to answer: is it even possible for you to still be “you” in another body? How responsible is your body, beyond just your brain, responsible for making you who you are?

[dyauspitr]

If it’s pure caloric intake there are plenty of dense fats that will let you do that without having to eat all day. Or your body could create all the proteins you need like silverbacks. Either ways, I’m saying in a sufficiently advanced society there should be enough ways to thread that needle to maintain what you want while modifying the rest. None of this is physically impossible.

[nkrisc]

No, not physically impossible to have large flying creatures. What I’m suggesting is that by the time you modify a human so they can fly, they’re not really human anymore.

But that may be more of a philosophical debate so I’ll leave it at that.