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<p>Create biographical page for person listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists (web-verified; red-link batch 7)</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox scientist<br /> | name = Christopher Michael Langan<br /> | fields = Philosophy, cosmology<br /> | nationality = American<br /> | known_for = Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU)<br /> }}<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Christopher Michael Langan&#039;&#039;&#039; is an American autodidact and author known for developing the &#039;&#039;&#039;Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe&#039;&#039;&#039; (CTMU), a self-styled &quot;theory of everything&quot; linking mind and reality. He is listed in &#039;&#039;[[The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists]]&#039;&#039;.<br /> <br /> Langan received wide media attention after reportedly scoring extremely high on IQ tests, and has often been described in the popular press as one of the highest-scoring individuals on record. He developed the CTMU largely outside academia over several decades of independent study.<br /> <br /> ==Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe==<br /> The CTMU is Langan&#039;s framework describing reality as a &quot;self-configuring, self-processing language&quot; (SCSPL) that evolves through a process he calls telic recursion. He presents it as a model in which the observing mind and the observed universe are aspects of a single logical structure, and argues that the framework provides the logical scaffolding for a theory of everything. Langan cites the participatory-universe ideas of physicist John A. Wheeler as a point of reference. He self-published an exposition of the model, &#039;&#039;The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe: A New Kind of Reality Theory&#039;&#039;, in 2002.<br /> <br /> The CTMU lies outside the scientific mainstream and has not been developed or tested through the peer-reviewed physics literature; it is generally regarded by physicists and philosophers as a metaphysical rather than an empirical theory.<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> * [http://www.ctmu.net/ ctmu.net]<br /> * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langan Christopher Langan (Wikipedia)]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Scientist|Langan Christopher]]<br /> [[Category:Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists]]</div>

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