Bryan Johnson argues that automating health management could make ideal health the baseline, freeing humanity to pursue bigger things. He cites Whitehead on how civilization advances by automating crucial tasks, shifting culture from scarcity to possibility.
Can systems run our health. And if that's the case, it's not a loss. It's not something that we need to mourn and feel bad about. It means we can play even more exciting and majestic games. There's this nice quote from Alfred North Whitehead. He said, civilization advances by the number of important operations that can be done without thinking about them. And this is true for humans that we oftentimes see the world through a frame of loss. But what if we all maintained ideal health and that was just status quo, and we were able to reorient our attention towards more majestic things?
