Podville #12: Steven Bartlett’s conversation with Bryan Johnson, a man who is doing his best to live forever.
Description
The benefits of experimenting on yourself — Does everyone have the same kind of mind, or do different minds have fundamental differences in the way they work? Is the desire for self-preservation an obstacle to higher intelligence? — Are the results of a super-disciplined life really worth the sacrifice and effort? — Is it even possible to stop and/or reverse aging? — Control over the emotions as well as the thinking mind is essential for discipline — What are emotions? — Is the foundation of the mind completely beyond the mind itself? — Why should the mind be running the show? — Two major energy drains: trying to convert other people and putting up walls against them — inducing courage and vision by studying what the greats of the past have done and the difficulties they faced — Doing something impossible not only affects your life, it moves all of humanity forward — How crafting a new life affects others — facing resistance — How friends and society react to different levels of one’s success — Life versus death as a motivator for decisions — The desire to see what's happening next keeps you hanging around — “Trying not to lose” versus “intending to win” — AI as an aid to intelligent experimentation on oneself — Power of the mind to optimize the experience of being alive — Staying free from depression by staying free from the influence of circumstance — “Seeing that so many things I used to worry about are meaningless today, how much of what I'm worried about now is also meaningless?” — Can the fudamentals of how the mind works be changed? — Does changing the mental filter change the underlying reality? — The amazing levels of freedom that can be experienced anytime by simply being present, here and now — All experience happens here and now — “Believing you are outside of God is the fundamental error” — How human desires affect human intelligence — Since AI has no human desire (self preservation, reproduction, tribalism, etc), wouldn’t the conclusions reached by AI be different from conclusions reached by the average human? – Death as a motivator for the highest enjoyment of life.
Original Podcast: The Man That’s Ageing Backwards
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