For An Upcoming Interview
This is a short biography we were asked to provide for the producers of an upcoming live interview, along with a brief overview of the CTMU including conceptual background and points to be touched on in the discussion. The bio is older, but the additional material is brand new and includes what might be described as a rough outline of my book-in-progress. Enjoy!
Bio:
Christopher Michael Langan is a noted independent researcher and reality theorist whose extraordinary intellect has not prevented him from living a rough, unsheltered, and exciting life. He is best known for his ground-breaking theory of reality, the Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU), developed in the 1980s and explicated over the last 40 years in a series of articles, essays, peer-reviewed research papers, and books. The CTMU is the first “Self-simulation” theory of reality, a reflexive, tautological, and profoundly self-contained intrinsic language through which reality exists and evolves by “talking to itself about itself”, thus serving as its own theory, universe, and model. Combining physics, metaphysics, and biology in a tight, elegant, and unique logico-semiotic structure called the Metaformal System, the CTMU provides a long-sought bridge between mind and matter, science and spirituality, and the internal and external aspects of human and cosmic existence.
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