Bryan Johnson gave control of his daily decisions to an automated system called his autonomous self. Most people see it as losing free will, but Johnson says it's the most liberating thing he's ever done, freeing him from routine choices about eating, drinking, and scheduling.
Okay, I'm a human operating in a story based world. I want to transition the management of me to a technology based system where it's automatically doing this. And that's what I called my autonomous self. There were versions of me who were panicking. They were like, we're not going to give up control. This is a dystopic situation. This is terrifying. And this is a very common reaction, I hear, to people who look at this and they respond and say, if I can't decide what I'm going to eat and drink and when I'm going to do those things, I don't know why I'm going to exist. And they feel like it's an assault on their free will. To me, it was the most, most liberating thing I've ever done in my entire life.
