Bryan Johnson is a weird dude.
We've covered his comments on eternal life, living through AI, and his vampiric relationship with his son (whose blood he uses to keep himself young).
But somehow he's gone a step further into the Dark Side:
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We have a literal century of sci-fi and fantasy stories that warn about this exact thing.
Not to mention thousands of years of folklore, biblical teaching, and history.
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Did this guy never read "Lord of The Rings"??
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Technically speaking, Johnson hasn't made an exact clone. He's just paying scientists to keep a slurry of his own stem cells in suspension.
The Telegraph has a little more of the science:
The cloning process refers to something known as induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology, which involves isolating cells from a blood sample and reprogramming them into cells that behave similarly to embryonic stem cells.
It is a well-established research field that was pioneered in the 2000s by Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka, who went on to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2012.
(Just a reminder: C.S. Lewis was right about science without God.)
Here's some of what Johnson himself posted on X:
Clinical trials are already using this technology to restore dopamine neurons for Parkinson's, heart health and eyesight.
The process
> blood draw
> my cells were extracted
> yamanaka factors applied
> reset epigenetic age
> restoring them to an embryonic-like state
Why?
> these cells are now pluripotent
> can be differentiated into hundreds of cell types
> i.e. neurons, cardiomyocytes, retinal cells, etc
> allowing me to rebuild my body
> organ by organ
> repairing lost eyesight or hearing
> restoring kidney, liver or lung function
> repairing skin damage
> there's no real limitation in imagining
> my body will accept them bc they're my cells
> foreign cells are at risk of being rejected
As cells age, they accumulate epigenetic errors compounding into dysfunction and disease.
This technology gives us a path to reverse aging.
It's one thing to create tech to prolong life, ease pain, and restore health.
But Voldemort here wants to cheat death. A big difference.
Good luck trying to biohack God, my dude.
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