Christopher Michael Langan (born c. 1952[1]) is the author of the Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe. Langan has been billed as "the smartest man in America",[2] with an IQ reported by 20/20 and other media sources to have been measured at around 195.[3] He created the CTMU in the mid-1980s while working as a nightclub bouncer on Long Island.

Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe

Langan has developed a hypothesis he terms the "Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe" (CTMU)[2][4][22] which he maintains "explains the connection between mind and reality, therefore the presence of cognition and universe in the same phrase".[23] He self-published a book on this theory in 2002.[24] He refers to this thesis as "a true 'theory of everything', a cross between John Archibald Wheeler's 'Participatory Universe' and Stephen Hawking's 'Imaginary Time' theory of cosmology,"[2] additionally contending that with the CTMU he "can prove the existence of god, the soul and an afterlife, using mathematics."[5][6]

Langan's thesis is a form of ontological idealism, and a particular form of idealism known as panpsychism. It is a synthesis of three ideas:

reality is made of information in the form of language: a syntactic grammar that exists in and of itself;
reality is transtemporal: things from one time can influence things in other times; and
reality, being a self simulation, contains a substrate of this information, a panconsciousness that emerges from within - that is, from the creator or simulator itself.[25]: 2 

The concept of the universe as a self-simulation is not a new one. David Finkelstein introduced the modern formulation in The Space–Time Code (1969).[25]: 2 [26]

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Timestamps
00:00:00 Welcome
00:01:25 How Michael heard about Chris and the CTMU
00:01:53 Why is the Smartest Man living on a farm in Missouri?
00:03:30 Getting Frozen out of the Economy
00:04:00 Higher Education
00:08:00 Blue collar lifestyle; bar bouncing; limited opportunity
00:11:30 Becoming an autodidact
00:13:30 Reality is Logico-Geometric
00:14:00 CTMU
00:15:30 IQ
00:16:50 Does God Exist? Nature of God.
00:20:30 Our relationship with God
00:21:30 Simulation hypothesis; Pantheism v. Panentheism
00:24:30 Reality / Christianity / Consciousness / Quantization of Reality
00:28:10 Free Will; Fixed v. Self-generating array / Metacausation
00:36:00 God in time and space / Heaven and hell / Salvation
00:39:00 Michael and Chris light up cigars
00:40:00 Psychedelics / Angels and demons / The devil
00:45:30 Satan versus Lucifer; their roles and relation to God
00:48:00 The psychology of sin; the devil; the current situation
00:51:00 Soros, Gates; the psychology of the elite
00:52:00 Money system; human utility; grassroots resistance
00:53:00 Do we need another revolution?
00:53:30 Globalism; conspiracies; WEF; Young Global Leaders
00:57:00 Donald Trump; 2020 election
00:59:30 What is your political background/beliefs? Demise of the Dems/RINOs
01:02:30 Immigration
01:06:45 COVID / vaccines / Great Reset
01:09:30 Intelligence Agencies
01:11:30 Aliens / Demons / UFOs / CIA / The Devil
01:25:00 Marxism / Academia, higher education
01:26:30 Capitalism v. Monopoly Capitalism
01:28:30 Beauty / Truth / Telesis
01:32:40 Intelligence
01:33:40 Catholicism / Pope
01:35:00 Beauty / Religion in art / Beauty & Truth
01:38:30 The Modern Right / Social engineering / LGBT
01:40:30 Modern philosophers
01:41:30 Classical philosophers; relationship b/w philosophy and religion;
01:45:00 intelligent design; new atheists; good & evil
01:48:00 Participatory observers; faith & knowledge, religion / religious institutions; truth and meaning in life
01:53:30 Transhumanism
01:57:00 What should we do about all this? Getting back to God as individuals and a species

Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, vol. 16, no. 1, 2020

THE REALITY SELF-SIMULATION PRINCIPLE: REALITY IS A SELF-SIMULATION
Christopher Langan

"Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise?" (Wheeler, J. A., 1986, p. 304)