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On August 21st at 7pm Eastern ISCID hosted a live moderated chat event with Christopher Langan. Read the transcript here: Christopher Langan Chat. |
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Biography Christopher Michael Langan was identified as "severely gifted" while still a young child. As he grew up, he was nevertheless challenged with inadequate schooling, extreme poverty, bouts of severe abuse, and the responsibility of helping care for his younger siblings. Raised to value brawn as highly as brains, Christopher worked at various times as a cowboy, firefighter and construction worker, and for the past 20+ years, as a bar bouncer in assorted nightclubs across the East End of Long Island. Without benefit of formal higher education, he has engaged for over two decades in research on mathematics, physics, cosmology and the cognitive sciences. |
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Additionally, Christopher is the President of a nonprofit organization, the Mega Foundation, established to offer aid, support and camaraderie to the "severely gifted" in order to help these creative individuals realize their dreams. He is also a co-founder of two ultra-high IQ groups, the Ultranet and the Mega Society East. In his spare time, Christopher Michael enjoys bodybuilding and riding his Harley Davidson motorcycle. He lives with his fiancée Gina, a neuropsychologist he met in the ultra-high IQ community, and several unusual pets. As part of an impressive string of television and radio appearances and feature articles, Chris was recently profiled in Popular Science Magazine discussing his theory of reality. Visit his website at www.ctmu.org for links to more articles, interviews and information about his work. |
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The real universe has always been theoretically treated as an object, and specifically as the composite type of object known as a set. But an object or set exists in space and time, and reality does not. Because the real universe by definition contains all that is real, there is no "external reality" (or space, or time) in which it can exist or have been "created". We can talk about lesser regions of the real universe in such a light, but not about the real universe as a whole. Nor, for identical reasons, can we think of the universe as the sum of its parts, for these parts exist solely within a spacetime manifold identified with the whole and cannot explain the manifold itself. This rules out pluralistic explanations of reality, forcing us to seek an explanation at once monic (because nonpluralistic) and holistic (because the basic conditions for existence are embodied in the manifold, which equals the whole). Obviously, the first step towards such an explanation is to bring monism and holism into coincidence ...[more] Links Cognitive-Theoretic
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