[jasfi]

If we can pull off synthetic bodies for our consciousness, then by that time going to Mars will be a walk in the park.

But I think you underlined the issue of timelines. Yes we can technically go to Mars in only a few years, but people living there permanently is going to be beyond my lifetime. Unless some people are willing to drastically sacrifice their health.

[K0balt]

It’s not so much synthetic bodies as synthetic brains. Once we can move into thermodynamic neural systems or something similar in effect, -anything- can be a body. You could be a spaceship, or a power plant, or an anthropoid robot. I would imagine that one would need enough sensory diversity to keep from going mad, But I would imagine that corporeal flexibility would be one of the major perks.