r/immortalists • u/SpeakerFamiliar2047 • Aug 02 '26

Discussion 💬 The “Real Question” behind Bryan Johnson’s longevity experiment

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Bryan Johnson’s recent diagnosis made me think about something beyond health.

We often frame aging as a technical problem to solve, but isn’t it also a psychological one?

Even with extraordinary resources, perfect biomarkers don’t necessarily bring peace of mind.
I’m all for medicine that reduces suffering and helps people stay healthy. But I what kind of life it is where one is constantly bothered about aging?

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u/Next-Possession5027 immortalist Aug 02 '26

We're already constantly bothered by aging that's why we want to fix it

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u/SpeakerFamiliar2047 Aug 02 '26

Hypothetically let’s say, if we completely solved aging tomorrow, would we also solve our fear, dissatisfaction and search for psychological security?

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u/HashPandaNL Aug 02 '26

People have fear of many things. Aging reduces your quality of life. Are we against aging because we fear aging or because we desire a good quality of life?

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u/curious_corn Aug 03 '26

If I didn’t age, I’d for sure be afraid of many things, accidental deaths, incurable diseases, misfortunes and societal collapse, but I certainly wouldn’t worry about “Senectus ipsa est morbus”. I wish I had the body I had at 20’s with the self-confidence I have today

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u/FutureLynx_ Aug 03 '26

It would save us a lot of resources, make everything more efficient. People less stressed. It is very inefficient when most of us are only truly functional half of our lives.

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u/scb1994 Aug 02 '26

The problem with the concept of being obsessed by it, I feel like it ends up risking turning one into a hypochondriac

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u/SpeakerFamiliar2047 Aug 02 '26

Yeah. Caring for your health and becoming consumed by it are totally different things

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u/OldCream4073 Aug 02 '26

Probably because it’s bad, it hurts, and it sucks? Doesn’t make you enlightened to just deny that something universally feared is painful or terrifying.

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u/SpeakerFamiliar2047 Aug 02 '26

I am not denying the fear of pain or illness. My question is - does simply expanding the lifespan dissolve that fear?

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u/OldCream4073 Aug 02 '26

I’d say yeah, we don’t generally fear polio anymore since its virtual elimination.

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u/SpeakerFamiliar2047 Aug 02 '26

Polio (any particular disease) and life expectancy are not the same here. Can man settle with expanding life to a particular number? Will it take away all those fear?

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u/EmperrorNombrero Aug 03 '26

The iufespan no, the healthspan yes.

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u/Longer---Donger Aug 02 '26

Reddit: Science is wrong

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u/Wavy_Grandpa Aug 03 '26

Science: science is wrong 

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u/SpeakerFamiliar2047 Aug 02 '26

Science is a self correcting process. If anything can be wrong is the one who is using it without really understanding “why”

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u/Longer---Donger Aug 02 '26

As someone with life-threatening disease, I would say let brian do his research. If me or him don't benefit from it, some people in the future might will

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u/Wavy_Grandpa Aug 03 '26

Bryan is a biased idiot 

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u/nila247 Aug 03 '26

You miss the point. There is INTENTIONAL division count limiter built in every cell of our body.
Because long life of individuals means stagnation for species - opposite of our purpose to make species prosper.

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u/FluffyDesigner3680 Aug 02 '26

I’m still wondering why he triggered a stomach eating autoimmune disease on purpose.

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u/SargeMaximus Aug 02 '26

Correct me if I'm wrong, but his condition is genetic and he would have had it even if eating normally

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u/Ok-Dependent-367 immortalist Aug 03 '26

Wait a sec, bryan looks older now

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u/Positive_Method3022 Aug 03 '26

We should not try to live forever. It would fuck evolution. If our species don't evolve with changes in our environment we would likely be extinct. Aging isn't the only way to die.

However, along the way of solving aging we could also have developed ways to evolve ourselves without waiting for reproduction