Johnson: Human conscious self-awareness is an inadequate sensor for brain health
Bryan Johnson · How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388) · Nov 22, 2022 · at 28:30
Bryan Johnson, founder of neurotech company Kernel, explains why subjective self-reporting is fundamentally insufficient for assessing mental health and brain states.
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“Most people think that their self-awareness Is basically the sensor system that captures their brain. Like because I'm conscious and because I can feel when I have a headache, it basically is a robust enough sensor system to do it. And that's not correct. So much happens in our brain that we are unaware of.”
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