Bryan Johnson is an entrepreneur, Anti-ageing influencer, and multimillionaire. He is on the mission not to die. The 47 years old man starting new religion name “Don’t die Mission”.
Johnson spent a million dollars on tests, supplements, and scanning his body. he has huge social media followers and media coverage all over the world.
In the latest interview with MIT Technology Review, Johnson spoke about different topics, including the “don’t die” mission and his so-called religion.
When asked, why he wanted to create a new religion, Johnson said, ” We’re in this new phase where [because of advances in AI] we’re trying to reimagine what it means to be human. It requires imagination and creativity, and open-mindedness, and that’s a big ask. Approaching that conversation as a community, or a lifestyle, doesn’t carry enough weight or power. Religions have proven, over the past several thousand years, to be the most efficacious form to organize human efforts. It’s just a tried-and-true methodology. “
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When asked, How do you go about founding a new religion? Johnson said ” It’s a good question. If you look at historical [examples], Buddha went through his own self-exploratory process and came up with a framework. And Muhammad had a story. Jesus had an origin story … You might even say Satoshi [Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of bitcoin] is like [the founder of] a modern-day religion, [launched] with the white paper. Adam Smith launched capitalism with his book. The question is: What is a modern-day religion, and how does it convince? It’s an open question for me. I don’t know yet.”
Johnson added, “It really is in my best interest to let it tell me what to eat, tell me when to sleep and exercise, because it would do a better job of making me happy. Instead of my mind haphazardly deciding what it wants to eat based on how it feels in the moment, the body is elevated to a position of authority. AI is going to be omnipresent and built into our everyday activities. Just like it autocompletes our texts, it will be able to autocomplete our thoughts.”
