Chris Langan's Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe

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Chris Langan's Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe

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What are your thoughts on the Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe?

It's a theory of the Universe, written by Chris Langan. It's extremely weird, and from what I've read, it seems to be pure bullshit. I (and everybody else in the world) would've dismissed this as horseshit if it wasn't for the fact that he may be the smartest man in the world, with an IQ of 195. From what I can tell though, that's not really the case. He was on that gameshow when you face a mob (it's name escapes me), and he didn't seem very intelligent. There's also an interesting documentary about him on Youtube, in which he comes off as an arrogant prick. Interestingly enough, he's also a major proponent of Intelligent Design, which seems to come up in the paper. At the very least, I think it's interesting to see what kind of stuff a man with that IQ came up with. The paper is extremely dense, and I'm having difficulty reading it, but again, it smells like bullshit from what I've read. It seems to me that the main lesson to take away from this is that IQ isn't that important. :?

Here's the site, which has a link to the actual paper on the front page:

http://www.ctmu.net/
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Having a high IQ doesn't mean you can just omit formal education and training; the subtext behind the media and popular adulation for Langan is a hatred for academic institutions and organized, formal learning. It is the Michael Bay philosophy of intellect in action. The idea you can prove the existance of anything the metaphysical questions he ponders is pure Aristotlean cant. Its fundamentally outside the limits of skeptical empiricism.
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I tried to read that and only thing I learned was dictionary + halfway decent paragraph generator = internet fame.
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Jesus that crap is completely unreadable. Its at the level of the worst pomo nonsense.
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The timecube guy claims to have a huge IQ and be revolutionising science too.

In fact they seem about the same. he even has what appears to be a time tetrahedron on one page.
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