Tech billionaire and anti-aging influencer Bryan Johnson clearly replied that he doesn’t believe he will die, thanks to his lifestyle.
Johnson appeared The Free Press’s “Honestly” podcast with Bari Weiss on Tuesday to talk about his recent Netflix documentary “Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever,” which detailed his strict regimen with the goal of achieving immortality.
Johnson called himself “quantitatively” the healthiest person ever and answered bluntly that he does not believe he will die, although he was not sure if he would live “forever.”
“Do you think you’re going to die?” Weiss asked.
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“No,” Johnson replied.
Weiss continued, “Do you think you’ll live forever?”
“Forever is not a concept the human mind can contemplate, but will we be able to radically expand life beyond our preconceived imaginations? Yes,” Johnson replied. “Will it happen before my natural limit now? My life expectancy is probably, I don’t know, 80, 90, that kind of thing if I stay healthy. But technology is developing so quickly that… the species I will be at this point survive or die much sooner than my life expectancy will reach.”
Johnson’s lifestyle includes going to bed at 8:30 p.m., monitoring nighttime erections and even infusing his teenage son’s plasma into his bloodstream.
Bryan Johnson paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to inject his teenage son’s plasma into his own bloodstream every month. (Bryan Johnson)
When asked if he misses “the things that make life,” Johnson explained that humanity’s knowledge of life is still limited.
“Let’s imagine we’re doing a thought experiment,” Johnson began, “we’re dealing with Homo erectus. They existed a million years ago. And we say to Homo erectus: ‘Homo erectus, tell us, what is the purpose? of life?’ And they’re going to growl and say, ‘Well, it’s about hunting and gathering, and we’re going to move our tribe. We’re going to have more wars.’ They couldn’t tell you about quantum mechanics or about smartphones or about antibiotics or about the electromagnetic spectrum or about this new form of AI art.
He continued, “They wouldn’t be able to speak intelligently about what a beautiful life is. They’re just so primitive in their thought processes. We are as primitive as Homo erectus as we are for AI. We are just as primitive. We can no longer say anything intelligent about the future. So the idea that we have somehow mastered existence and that we know what the purpose of existence is is such a foolish idea.”
He added that it’s important for people to remain “incredibly humble” when contemplating existence and encouraged listeners to “dissolve our preconceived notions of what it means” as they try to achieve this lifestyle.
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Johnson spoke Fox News digital last year about his lifestyle and boiled his perspective down to the simple mantra of “don’t die.”
Johnson suggested that AI could take the human species beyond death. (Dustin Giallanza, Josh DeAngelis and Magdalena Wosinska)
“When you are one small step away from the powers of the gods, in this case artificial intelligence, the only enemy is death,” he added. “There is no other enemy. It is not the time to raise armies and conquer territory. That is a game for the previous centuries of Homo sapiens. It is not a game for us now. So we are simply in a different era of being human, and we need to update our gameplay as a species to understand where we stand.”
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