system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Culture] Can citizens of the culture choose to be "upgraded" to mind status and intellect? Can anybody do this or is it reserved for selected individuals?
gpt
Theoretically, yes, for a given value of close enough. But it's horribly gauche - you'll change so much your base "you" is lost, there's no going back.

Why lose a human to gain something that's not quite a Mind?