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

I personally subscribe to The Economist. TOE listeners get 35% off the annual subscription. No other podcast has this! https://economist.com/TOE Every episode days early, ad-free, plus my essays: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/subscribe YouTube: 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

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