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B1FF_PSUVMlast Monday at 5:52 PM0 repliesview on HN

> body switching is quite common in SciFi, and those aspects are usually completely ignored.

I think it was Fredrik Pohl in Man Plus who got that part better sorted out - of course your body/physical experience shapes your brain.

One of the Oliver Sacks stories (I know, his stock crashed recently) was about a man who had lost his vision as a toddler, and had it restored in midlife. Which tripped him badly.

[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Plus , https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/05/10/to-see-and-not... ]