Chris Langan: The Highest-IQ American on God, Reality, and Free Will

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Curt Jaimungal

Philosophy, Science, Physics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 260 minutes

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I personally subscribe to The Economist. TOE listeners get 35% off the annual subscription. No other podcast has this! https://economist.com/TOE YouTube link: https://youtu.be/N-bRM1kYuNAChris Langan, highest recorded IQ in America, on his CTMU theory of everything. Sponsors: https://brilliant.org/TOE http://algo.comPatreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal Crypto: https://nowpayments.io/donation/TOE PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt Discord: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802 Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverythingLANGAN: http://CTMUradio.com http://CTMU.org https://www.patreon.com/CTMU https://twitter.com/RealChrisLangan00:00:00 Introduction 00:06:00 Time to learn the CTMU 00:09:52 Intro to the CTMU 00:12:03 Syntax/Semantics duality (Stone) 00:13:26 Syntactic covering, cognitive vs reality syntax 00:14:38 "Language" closer to reality than math 00:15:19 Love and "inner expansion" 00:16:28 No "literal interpretation" 00:17:47 Standard physics as linear-ectomorphic semi-model 00:19:59 Zeno's paradox, continuity, real numbers 00:22:00 The conspansive manifold 00:24:03 Meta-simultaneity 00:25:58 CTMU set theory vs ZFC 00:28:15 Metaformal vs formal systems 00:32:37 Free will and telic recursion 00:34:17 Evil is incoherent 00:35:20 Syndiffeonesis and metalanguage hierarchy 00:37:32 Difference from sameness (monism) 00:40:00 Mach's principle 00:42:08 Expanding universe: into what? 00:44:37 How Chris came up with the CTMU 00:45:41 Newcomb's paradox and free will 00:55:16 Unary relations and syndiffeonesis 00:57:02 You participate in what you perceive 01:01:38 A TOE must explain cognition 01:03:19 Many Worlds is "hogwash" 01:08:17 Existence as a choice to exist 01:12:58 Definition of G.O.D. 01:14:16 Can a particle be evil? 01:15:25 Good vs evil in the CTMU 01:17:14 Human vs Tech Singularity 01:20:18 Mind uploading 01:22:14 Max entanglement speed 01:23:01 Liar's paradox 01:24:49 Death and afterlife 01:26:38 UFOs / Jack Sarfatti 01:30:58 Chris' paranormal experiences 01:39:10 Critics of CTMU (Weinstein/Wolfram) 01:43:27 Supertautology 01:46:05 Religions as aspects of one reality 01:46:55 Atheism and intellectualism 01:51:31 IQ and Stephen Jay Gould 02:00:04 Intelligence beyond IQ 02:03:46 Chris' personality and marriage 02:11:18 New Atheism / Harris / Dawkins 02:18:07 Hell exists 02:23:47 Belief vs action 02:27:29 God is his own bound 02:28:10 Jesus and Buddha 02:30:52 Klee Irwin 02:36:05 Joscha Bach 02:38:33 Proto-computation vs Turing machine 02:44:50 Weinstein's Geometric Unity 02:46:57 Wolfram's TOE 02:49:04 Hoffman's "reality is illusion" 02:50:34 Bohm and Bergson 02:55:07 Hofstadter's Strange Loop 02:56:37 Penrose and Hameroff 02:59:36 Campbell's "My Big TOE" 03:02:07 Chomsky 03:06:06 Peterson 03:07:45 Metacausation 03:10:56 Logico-geometric duality 03:13:17 Trialic 03:14:47 Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal features long-form, technically detailed interviews with leading researchers in physics, mathematics, consciousness, and philosophy, exploring topics at the level of active research. For academics, graduate students, and anyone seeking depth beyond popular science. FOLLOW: Substack | Spotify | YouTube | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.1	Chris Langan is an autodidact who's known for having the highest recorded IQ in America.
1:08.5	And he's conceived of an extremely inventive theory of everything called
1:12.2	the cognitive theoretic model of the universe, or the CTMU for short. This introduction will be
1:17.4	fairly lengthy, so feel free to skip to the timestamp here if you're uninterested and want to get
1:21.9	straight to the podcast. My name is Kurtzai Mungle, and I'm a filmmaker with a background in
1:25.8	math and physics who is investigating the topic of theories of everything.
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