The Secrets of Reality

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung

Cognitive Theoretic Model of The Universe

I watched a YouTube video this morning, titled ‘Man with 200 IQ Explains the Secrets of Reality.’ YouTube is my favourite platform, I explore subjects I have an interest in, like golf, science and science fiction, news, music, and anything that catches my eye. This video, an interview with Christopher Langan, “smartest person on the planet”, with an IQ of 200, and hosted by Micheal Knowles of the CTMU Radio Podcast, caught my eye.

I am interested in science, I subscribe to science commentators, I listen to what they comment on, up to a point I may understand some basic principles but go deeper and I get lost. I only scored 51% in my physics exam in my school certificate year at high school, and I think 60% in maths. Enough to get by in life, but rudimentary understanding when listening to people like Christopher Langan, Sabine Hossenfelder or Anton Petrov. Hossenfelder and Petrov are science commentators I subscribe to on YouTube. 

Lagan says, “Reality has an identity, identity is that which something exists as matter of fact, when you say the word reality, you're naming an identity, you're identifying something.”

Lagan arrived at his CTMU theory by combining the thoughts of Einstein and Russell.

“CTMU stands for the Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe. It's my theory of everything, and it's all in the name. If you take a close look at it, the cognitive theory is a kind of language—theoretic language. Then, you've got the cognitive theoretical model, which is a model of the universe. The model is the mapping between them. The CTMU says that all these terms and properties are distributed everywhere over reality.

Reality can only have one structure. Once you realize that and implement it in theoretical form, it becomes clear that this isn't just about isolated aspects of thought, philosophy, language, math, or physics. It's a universal concept.

With this universal concept, you get the absolute invariants and absolute truths of reality, no matter where or when you exist. We aren't just defining God out of existence. Sometimes, people say God exists but give such a weak and shallow definition that the God they describe has no relation to the God we conceive of.”

You're saying that this God is God. 

“God Himself is conscious and, therefore, personal. Yes, you can establish a personal relationship with God. We are images of God, and those images are the product of a mapping. God maps Himself into each human being, which is a very personal thing. I don't understand how anyone can see it differently; we reflect that structure.”

My Thoughts

My immediate impression after watching the video, in general I agree with much of what Langan says. This is not a religion versus science discussion, rather it is religion being complimentary with science. In essence, we create our own reality, not only in this life, but in the next as well. Stephen Hawking said, “… information is never lost.” What the reality of our identity is, is never lost, we continue beyond the reality of this present existence.