The world's 'smartest man' has revealed whether or not he thinks God exists - and he's certain about his answer.
Chris Langan is alleged to have IQ between 190 and 210 - higher than Albert Einstein's - and is renowned for his Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU).
The theory proposes that reality and consciousness are interconnected in a structure that explains existence, as well as the relationship between mind and reality.
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In an interview with CTMU Radio, Langan shared this thoughts on various subjects, including whether God truly exists.
When asked, he responded: "Yes. Yes, the reality has an identity. The identity is that as which something exists. Matter of fact, when you say the world reality, you're naming an identity. You're identifying something."
Langan went on to explain how CTMU is applicable to the question about God's existence, revealing the link between identity and properties.
"That's what the CTMU says. It just comes up, with a mathematical structure that you need to build a reality out of that," he said.
"So, you come up with that identity and then you search it for its properties. Once you've built the preliminary framework, you start deducing the properties of this identity and you find out that those properties match those of God, as described in most of the world's major religions."
It means that God is the identity of certain properties that we can see around us, not necessarily a person in the heavens.
Elsewhere, Langan shared his perspective on death and what happens after we pass away on Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal podcast.
He said: “That's the termination of your relationship with your particular physical body that you have at this present time. When you are retracted from this reality, you go back up toward the origin of reality. You can be provided with a substitute body, another kind of terminal body that allows you to keep on existing.”
According to Langan, death does not mean that you cease to exist, but that our consciousness moves out of what we know as our world and towards the origin of reality, which isn’t the afterlife.
After you die, you’ll be in a state of meditation or something that looks similar, he claims.
He added: “Now you're basically meditating, seeing everything change. However, you exist that way right now. Arguably, all of your lifetimes, if you were to be reincarnated again and again and again, all of those reincarnations are meta-simultaneous. There is a sense in which they all occur at once in the non-terminal domain.”
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