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| The '''Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe''' ('''CTMU''') is a ] theory of reality as a self-referential, self-generating ].<ref name="Redvaldsen2019"/><ref name="Goertzel2015"/><ref name="Schofield2017">{{cite thesis |title=Dialectical holism : the lost metaphysics of E. E. Harris |year=2017 |last1=Schofield |first1=James |url=https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/14560 |publisher=University of Canterbury |location=New Zealand |degree=PhD |date=May 2017}}</ref> It is sometimes described as a ].<ref name="Schofield2017"/><ref name="Menzler2019"/> | |||
| == Relationship to intelligent design == | |||
| ] relies on ], the idea that certain biological traits are complex enough that they could not have evolved in incremental modifications through ].<ref name="Redvaldsen2019"/> The CTMU is one way for intelligent design advocates to answer the question of how biological traits of irreducible complexity come to exist.<ref name="Redvaldsen2019">{{cite book|editor1=William Gibson|editor2=Dan O'Brien|editor3=Marius Turda|title=Teleology and Modernity|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-GumDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT197|date=31 July 2019|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-351-14186-4|pages=197–202|chapter=Chapter 5: Charles Darwin and the argument for design |author1=David Redvaldsen}}</ref> As the CTMU indicates, creation occurs through a self-replicating feature of the universe, so irreducible complexity could be generated in a top-down way.<ref name="Redvaldsen2019"/> A similar line of reasoning follows for the explanation of the physical laws of the universe as part of the ].<ref name="Redvaldsen2019"/><ref name="Goertzel2015"/> | |||
| The seminal paper published on the CTMU appeared in the journal ''Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design''{{efn|{{cite journal |title=The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe: A New Kind of Reality Theory |url=http://www.iscid.org/pcid/2002/1/2-3/langan_ctmu.php|date=September 2002|journal=Progress in Complexity, Information and Design|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021105024347/http://www.iscid.org/pcid/2002/1/2-3/langan_ctmu.php|archive-date=2002-11-05|issn=1555-5089|last1=Langan|first1=Christopher|author-link1=Christopher Langan}}}} which was published by an organization associated with ] ], the ].<ref name="Menzler2019"/> CTMU literature also claims that the CTMU can be used to prove God's existence.<ref name="Goertzel2015"/> However, God as described by the CTMU is not a conventional anthropomorphic God, or a ] deliberate creator of the universe.<ref name="Redvaldsen2019"/><ref name="Goertzel2015"/><ref name="Fusco2016"/> As the CTMU asserts that the universe created itself, a God as a ] that exists outside of the universe is redundant.<ref name="Redvaldsen2019"/><ref name="Fusco2016"/> Rather the CTMU suggests God exists inside the universe<ref name="Redvaldsen2019"/> and the universe as a whole resembles a supreme mind or intelligence.<ref name="Goertzel2015"/><ref name="Menzler2019"/><ref name="Fusco2016"/> Furthermore, in the CTMU biological evolution is seen as progressing on top of self-generating processes of the universe.<ref name="Menzler2019"/> | |||
| == Role of language == | |||
| In the CTMU, reality is composed of information in the form of mathematical language.<ref name="IrwinAmaral2020"/> Languages progress in goal-directed ways attempting to maximize utility in specific domains.<ref name="Goertzel2015"/> These languages are self-perceiving, self-defining, self-configuring and self-executing. They create their own rules for development and ultimately are able to interpret themselves.<ref name="Goertzel2015"/><ref name="Menzler2019"/> Preservation of perception creates information and requires cognition (as related to the name of the model).<ref name="Menzler2019"/> The substrate of information in the CTMU is a self-creating panconsciousness.<ref name="IrwinAmaral2020">{{cite journal|last1=Irwin|first1=Klee|last2=Amaral|first2=Marcelo|last3=Chester|first3=David|title=The Self-Simulation Hypothesis Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics|journal=Entropy|volume=22|issue=2|year=2020|pages=247|issn=1099-4300|doi=10.3390/e22020247 |bibcode=2020Entrp..22..247I |lay-url=https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/new-hypothesis-argues-the-universe-simulates-itself-into-existence}}</ref> Mind and physical reality are connected through a network of linguistic relationships as are individual minds to the universal mind.<ref name="Goertzel2015">{{Cite web|url=http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com/2015/10/langans-cognitive-theoretic-model-of.html|title=Langan's 'Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe'|last=Goertzel|first=Ben|date=2015-10-19|website=The Multiverse According to Ben|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215004104/https://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com/2015/10/langans-cognitive-theoretic-model-of.html|archive-date=2016-02-14|access-date=2019-09-25|author-link1=Ben Goertzel}}</ref> In this model, time is an emergent relationship between languages, with later languages extending earlier ones.<ref name="Goertzel2015"/> Reality is ] where things from one time can influence things in other times.<ref name="IrwinAmaral2020"/> | |||
| == Influences and related concepts == | |||
| The CTMU derives some inspiration from ]'s ] and ], but also criticizes it as "informational reductionism."<ref name="Goertzel2015"/><ref name="Menzler2019"/><ref name="Dembski2016">{{cite book|author=William A. Dembski|title=Being as Communion: A Metaphysics of Information|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ERoGDAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1|date=15 April 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-17545-2|pages=1–11|chapter=Chapter 1: The Challenge of a Material World}}</ref> The CTMU shares some similar features with ]'s philosophy, particularly the concept of a ] that over time gains knowledge of itself and eventually reaches a stage where "thought thinks itself."<ref name="Redvaldsen2019"/><ref name="Menzler2019"/> The CTMU also has some similarities to ]'s attempts at using mathematical language to explain reality as a tautologically self-organizing and self-designing system.<ref name="Fusco2016">{{cite journal |url=https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/75519 |title=Consciousness in the Wilderness of Mirrors: Trinitarian Kenosis and Created Difference in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar |date=1 November 2016 |last1=Fusco |first1=Mark Peter |publisher=University of St. Michael’s College|degree=PhD}}</ref> The CTMU has much in common with The Self-Simulation Hypothesis Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics as published by Quantum Gravity Research,<ref name="IrwinAmaral2020"/> ] and ].<ref name="Menzler2019">{{cite book|last1=Menzler|first1=Nils|title=Techno-Esoterik in der säkularisierten Moderne: Überzeugungsstrategien, Apparate und die Formung des modernen Subjekts|chapter=Chapter 2: Theoretische Vorarbeiten § 2.2 »Paraphysik«, »Parawissenschaft« und »Pseudowissenschaft« |pages=41–43 |language=German|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XYkExwEACAAJ|date=25 July 2019|publisher=Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden|doi=10.1007/978-3-658-27303-3|isbn=978-3-658-27302-6|author-link1=Nils Melzer}}</ref> Defining reality using languages is also common in computational fields.<ref name="Langi2013">{{cite book|last1=Langi|first1=Armein Z. R.|s2cid=11727050|title=International Conference on ICT for Smart Society|chapter=A theoretical foundation for engineering smart environments through PSV systems|year=2013|pages=1–4|doi=10.1109/ICTSS.2013.6588091|isbn=978-1-4799-0145-6}}</ref><ref name="Langi2014">{{cite book|last1=Langi|first1=A.Z.R|title=Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Advances in Education Technology|year=2014|doi=10.2991/icaet-14.2014.1|isbn=978-94-62520-44-8|journal=Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research|issn=2352-5398|pages=1–6|chapter=Computing Literacy as a Foundation for Digital Learning}}</ref> | |||
| == Unapproachability of papers published on the CTMU == | |||
| Both artificial intelligence researcher ] and computer scientist ] remarked that the material published on the CTMU uses terminology and ] in a way that makes it difficult to understand.<ref name="Goertzel2015"/><ref name="Chu-Carroll2011a">{{cite web|url=http://goodmath.scientopia.org/2011/02/11/another-crank-comes-to-visit-the-cognitive-theoretic-model-of-the-universe/|title=Another Crank comes to visit: The Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110214103053/https://scientopia.org/blogs/goodmath/2011/02/11/another-crank-comes-to-visit-the-cognitive-theoretic-model-of-the-universe/ |last1=C. Chu-Carroll |first1=Mark |archive-date=2011-02-14}}</ref><ref name="Chu-Carroll2008">{{cite web |title=Two For One: Crackpot Physics and Crackpot Set Theory |website=Good Math/Bad Math |url=http://www.goodmath.org/blog/2008/02/21/two-for-one-crackpot-physics-and-crackpot-set-theory/ |last1=Chu-Carroll |first1=Mark |date=2008-02-21}}</ref> | |||
| ==Notes== | |||
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| == References == | |||
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