The ring makes you a p-zombie I can't be certain you're wrong, but I wouldn't expect that. That's really good, although rather scary! I am not sure I would *care*! You're living an abnormally successful life, a rich and much-loved member of the community with a happy family? Who the heck cares *who* is living such a life? It's being lived, right? If you can do it with an earring and half of the brain, instead of all of the brain, so much the better! Would you voluntarily ingest a parasitic worm that eats your brain, absorbs your goal system, hangs out in your skull, connects to your nervous system, and then lives about the same life you would live only better? (suppose for the moment that you're being selfish and ignoring concerns about whether the parasite would be better at pursuing efficient charity and so on) In Greg Egan's "jewelhead" stories, everyone gets a jewel implanted in their head at the age of 18.…