Bryan JohnsonFounder of Blueprint and Don't Die

Could we create a Blueprint for Earth? Measurement - Evidence - Intervention.

25 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, Bryan Johnson reflects on his personal struggle with self‑regulation, describing how he chose to "ask his organs to take control" in order to achieve an ideal state of health, effectively letting his body’s internal systems guide behavior rather than his mind. He then extends this personal strategy to a planetary scale, proposing that Earth can be treated as a single organism. By taking millions of measurements of the planet’s biosphere, gathering evidence of what constitutes a healthy Earth, and managing it according to those constraints, humanity could create a "blueprint" for planetary health and intervene in a systematic, data‑driven way.

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As an individual, I do things that are not in my best interest and I can't stop them. And so is there a part of me that would behave differently in a more peaceful and constructive way? And the solution was to ask my organs to be in control and do that. And so I found an alternative to my mind running the show and doing these things to my body running the show and being able to achieve this ideal health. The same system could be applied to planet Earth. The Earth. The Earth is equal to being a body where you basically take millions of measurements of planet Earth, you're looking at the evidence for proper biosphere, and then you manage the Earth according to these constraints.