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[Anonymous No.15116741]

Recently looked into Langan's work. Very interesting stuff if you have a background in logic/ philo. What do you guys think?

Apparently the guy has an IQ between 190 and 210.

http://ctmucommunity.org/wiki/Cognitive-Theoretic_Model_of_the_Universe

[Anonymous No.15116751]

>>15116741
So smart he needs to beg for money on patreon

[Anonymous No.15116786]

>>15116741
give me a quick rundown for a sub 80 IQ

[Anonymous No.15116805]

No one ever managed to refute a single thing he said without using ad hominems, appeals to authority and buzzwords.

[Anonymous No.15116841]

>>15116786
Poopoopeepee gud

[Anonymous No.15116879]

I looked into it. I wouldn't quite call it sophistry but there are obscurantist and suspicious elements. His wonky neologisms that could be better explained with established terminology ("perfect autotransductive reflexivity"), his lack of references to existing work, the bogus idea that he has "proved the existence of God", his claims to be able to boil it all down to a few pages of mathematics but never showing it, the tendency to mask a lack of profundity in spurious tautologies ("In essence, it states that reality is self-contained, and there is nothing external to reality. "), loose inconsistencies (mind equals reality, and yet reality is constantly described as something super-mental). All of this is suspicious. But I enjoy digging together these curious sorts of quacky "timecube" theories as a pastime. And I'm not saying it's all necessarily nonsense but it has serious executional flaws.

[Anonymous No.15116923]

>>15116879
>I wouldn't quite call it sophistry but there are obscurantist and suspicious elements.
It's because you're a midwit. Retardchads don't have any problem admitting Langan is smarter than us.

[Anonymous No.15116932]

>>15116841
Based

[Anonymous No.15116938]

>>15116805
Because he's a sophist, your picture is retarded and I don't even like atheists. Atheism doesn't refer to material reality from above, it refers to material reality from within material reality just like literally every philosophical claim. It's slight of hand, unless he's going to claim that all metaphysical claims are themselves proof of metaphysics, in which case it's a tautology.

[Anonymous No.15116964]

>>15116741
An IQ of 210 is meaningless. It would be calculated as 1 in a number greater than the total number of humans alive now and would make it an inherently stupid score to give.
We can't score accurately at all above about 160, above 170 it's terrible and anything about 180 is hopeless.

[Anonymous No.15116976]

genius

[Anonymous No.15117251]

>>15116741
This is literally why people don't respect philosophers anymore. Any "model of the universe" that isn't expounded mathematically is utterly worthless.

[Anonymous No.15117267]

>>15116741
He looks so sad

[Anonymous No.15117466]

this guy's whole being is so fixated on his intelligence that he goes and creates a model of the universe centered on cognition so that forever on prove he is the greatest being in the universe. bravo, nerd!

[Anonymous No.15117542]

>>15116923
Not an argument. Defeat my points, pseudo

[Anonymous No.15117678]

>>15116741
his face is of the pedigree of an ugly pug

[Anonymous No.15117690]

>>15117267
Burden of big brain

[Anonymous No.15117839]

This guy could've been another Kripke if he had a better childhood

[Anonymous No.15118136]

A work of sophistry. Lagan is a great example of why we should judge intelligence on achievements not a standardised test.

[Anonymous No.15118152]

>>15117251
What does this physics crackpot have to do with philosophy?

[Anonymous No.15118162]

Stephen Wolfram tier

[Anonymous No.15118169]

>>15116805
This is no different than spinoza's tautological bending of definitions whereby "god" comes to mean "substance". All he's done is made it impossible to differentiate the "metaphysical identity" from "god", when he cannot give any reason at all as to why we should even call that identity by the name of God.

[Anonymous No.15118182]

>>15117251
But when it is, like the wolfram project, people just accuse him of mistaking the map for the territory. I don't think there is anything that would satisfy you

[Anonymous No.15118224]

>>15116805
>God is just a substitute for a coherent metaphysical identity
I'm not even an atheist but that's ridiculously dishonest, that's not even close to the common atheist position and he's refuting an argument no one is making.

[Anonymous No.15118332]

Existence is an idempotent quasi-mutative self-generating syntactic structure. It auto-potentiates its self-catalysis through infocognitive constructional semantical elastic-spastic transduction.

[Anonymous No.15118343]

>>15116805
This is a semantic game.

[Anonymous No.15118344]

>>15116741
>Very interesting stuff if you have a background in logic/ philo. What do you guys think?
As someone with a background in logic/philo, his theory's trash. Dude should have bothered to read some philosophy first, instead of acting like making up words does anything to make your theory original.
I heard he flips his lid at anyone who tries to question or debate him on his theory

[Anonymous No.15118351]

>>15116805
>No one ever managed to defend a single thing he said without using ad hominems, appeals to authority and buzzwords.

[Anonymous No.15118357]

>>15118351
Damn I wish i thought of that

[Anonymous No.15118364]

>>15118351
Because nobody can speak his glossolalia.

[Anonymous No.15118471]

>>15118224
This, I’m not even sure what he was attempting to prove.

[Anonymous No.15119398]

>>15116741
he's a christcuck so there's something wrong with his brain

[Anonymous No.15119414]

>>15116805
Same energy.

[Anonymous No.15119418]

He's a genuine genius who had a bad start in life and now has a complex about his own intelligence (he was rejected from Harvard for coming from a poor background IIRC)

[Anonymous No.15119440]

I think he's shit.

[Anonymous No.15119651]

>>15119418
Lmao. You actually believe that horseshit?

[Anonymous No.15119673]

>>15116805
>uses "paradox" instead of "contradiction"
was i supposed to be impressed by this?

[Anonymous No.15119689]

>>15118344
this. am a student in philosophy

[Anonymous No.15119697]

>>15116741
if he's so smart why does he cut his hair like that

[Anonymous No.15119774]

>>15119414

[Anonymous No.15119787]

>>15119414
This is the most reddit post that I ever seen

[Anonymous No.15119893]

>>15119787
It's obviously a troll post, moron.

God you people are stupid as fuck. I bet you felt cool pointing your finger and saying "Ha ha plebbit!"

[Anonymous No.15120109]

>>15118344
>>15119689
this, I have 3 PHDs in phil, can confirm he is uncultured plebian