/lit/ - Literature

>Solves philosophy
*nothing personell kiddo*

>The CTMU has a meta-Darwinian message: the universe evolves by hological self-replication and self-selection. Furthermore, because the universe is natural, its self-selection amounts to a cosmic form of natural selection. But by the nature of this selection process, it also bears description as intelligent self-design (the universe is “intelligent” because this is precisely what it must be in order to solve the problem of self-selection, the master-problem in terms of which all lesser problems are necessarily formulated). This is unsurprising, for intelligence itself is a natural phenomenon that could never have emerged in humans and animals were it not already a latent property of the medium of emergence. An object does not displace its medium, but embodies it and thus serves as an expression of its underlying syntactic properties. What is far more surprising, and far more disappointing, is the ideological conflict to which this has led. It seems that one group likes the term “intelligent” but is indifferent or hostile to the term “natural”, while the other likes “natural” but abhors “intelligent”. In some strange way, the whole controversy seems to hinge on terminology.

holy based

What is consciousness?

Are /lit/ moral realists or moral anti-realists? Do moral claims have a truth value?

What are some fiction books that delve into philosophy of mind?

>>13354214
Uh sweetie, every single socialist state has turned that way.

Giving authority for either a king or government is slavery.

>Langanesque

You've read my CTMU, right?

make way ye troglodytic acolytes of academia, the Emissary of Divine Truth coming through

Chris Langan is smarter.

Ever get fitness shamed by dyel /lit/ nerds who call you a "meathead" ???.

Here's your trump card: This man sits at a 200 iq and has bodybuilt since he was a teenager, mostly motivated by being bullied throughout middle and highschool

behold Chris Langan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-788Upky2Y

About 195-210.

how can humanities and stem-cucks even compete?

>Christopher Michael Langan (born March 25, 1952) is an American whose IQ was reported to be "between 195 and 210".[1] In Morris 2001, Langan relates that he took what was billed as "the world's most difficult IQ test" in Omni magazine, and he gives his IQ as "somewhere between 190 and 210". He has been described as "the smartest man in America" as well as "the smartest man in the world" by some journalists.[2] Langan has developed a "theory of the relationship between mind and reality" which he calls the "Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe" (CTMU).

>Langan told Muscle Magazine that "you cannot describe the universe completely with any accuracy unless you're willing to admit that it's both physical and mental in nature"[11] and that the CTMU "explains the connection between mind and reality, therefore the presence of cognition and universe in the same phrase".[12] He calls his proposal "a true 'Theory of Everything', a cross between John Archibald Wheeler's 'Participatory Universe' and Stephen Hawking's 'Imaginary Time' theory of cosmology."[4] In conjunction with his ideas, Langan has claimed: "You can prove the existence of God, the soul and an afterlife, using mathematics."
>The CTMU theory has been criticized for its use of convoluted language. Langan's use of terms he has invented (or redefined) has made his exposition obscure. Some suggest this is deliberate.

>Langan has said elsewhere that he does not belong to any religious denomination, explaining that he "can't afford to let [his] logical approach to theology be prejudiced by religious dogma".[12] He calls himself "a respecter of all faiths, among peoples everywhere".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langan

>mfw for all we know our consciousness could be a result of refracting light off of what once was earth, as we all travel a light wave carrying our visible being through space as earth was destroyed billions of years ago and none of us would ever know it because we're all just a memory
>life isn't short
>life ended milenia ago

>>7163614
>What distinguishes false improvement from genuine improvement then?
Clearly cognition. Cognition measurements distinguishes false improvement from genuine improvement. Cognition is the only reason for Authority, and the only way towards Health maintenance/improvement, therefore cognition, intelligence, understanding is the legit best improvement you could measure. There are a few ways one can measure his cognition. Mental chronometry is useful to rank individuals who score the same amount on the same test. Given this is logically rare, IQ becomes a reward for individuals who can answer wrong and fast, at cost of those who take their time and ace the test. Thus the correlation between fast reaction time and general intelligence is false. So cognition, in the sense of being right, logical, having some natural notions of game and decision theory, even some informal experience with the Halting problem, is the genuine improvement you should look for. Given you just want to use your feelings for verifying your intelligence, you should look for general lack of anxiety, expected feedback from your environment, etc

Considering you are dumber than me... it is expected you call me autist, psycho(I expect that you think psychosis is equal to psychopathy, which is not, thus revealing ignorance), or whatever retarded diagnosis a pleb can come up with when confronted with criticism about his pleb behavior and anti-intelectual mindset. So fuck off now.

>I just had a chance encounter with a garden slug, and it got me thinking about time.

http://www.megafoundation.org/CTMU/Articles/Time.html

>he thinks he is intelligent
>he doesn't believe in the Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe
I seriously hope you guys don't do this.

Langan thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYhAy68FL-o

when will you fuckers realize that the universe, being reflexively self-processing, is self-perceptual in nature and thus endowed with various levels of self-awareness and sentience, or constructive, creative intelligence?

Is anyone here familiar with Chris Langan's CTMU?

http://main.megafoundation.org/Langan_CTMU_092902.pdf


Putting aside his le genius attitude, it's actually brilliant as fuck, but he's dismissed as a crackpot instantly by STEM edgelords because his theory supports some kind of global conscious agency i.e. god

Can people recommend me a classic work of literature, less than 300 pages, that I can read before school gets in?

I'm up for any genre or format.

>>5247113

Hegel is the Christopher Langan of the 19th century, for they were both over-intelligent megalomaniacs. But here's the kicker: they're both right.

Well I have an IQ of 210. Pic related, me.