The smartest man in the world with an IQ of 210 shares what he thinks happens after we die
‘What happens after we die?’ is the most existential question people face.
But a man with one of the highest IQs in history claims to know the answer.
Chris Langan, 72, is an American horse farmer who is said to have an IQ between 190 and 210. That ‘genius’ score is 30 to 50 points higher than that of Albert Einstein.
Langan has developed a hypothesis called the Cognitive-Theoretical Model of the Universe (CTMU), which he claims “explains the connection between mind and reality.”
He believes that when we die, we transition from one form of being to another within the computational structure of reality, meaning that consciousness, or “soul,” moves to another dimension or plane of existence where we live during our lives. do not have access to it.
It’s not clear what that new dimension would look like, or what happens to the “soul” once it gets there. But Langan believes that traditional views of heaven and hell are too simplistic, while his theory posits a transition to an entirely new state of being.
Langan explained his concept of death during an appearance on the Theories of Everything podcast with Curt Jaimungal in May.
He said that death is “the termination of your relationship with your specific physical body that you currently have. When you withdraw from this reality, you return to the origin of reality.
Chris Langan, 72, is an American horse farmer who is said to have an IQ between 190 and 210. That ‘genius’ score is 30 to 50 points higher than that of Albert Einstein.
According to Langan, death does not mean that you cease to exist
“You can get a replacement body, a different kind of end body that allows you to continue to exist.”
According to Langan, death does not mean that you cease to exist.
Once you transition into this new plane of existence, you may not even remember who you were before, Langan said.
‘You can have – these memories can be – nothing lasts in mathematics.
“Your memories can always be retrieved, but there’s usually no reason to do so, okay?
‘Why cling to memories of a world in which you are no longer instantiated?
“So there are certain automatic psychological things that happen at death, at the moment of death.”
After you die, you are in a state of meditation or something similar.
He added: ‘Now you’re actually meditating and you see everything changing. But right now, this is how you exist.
‘If you were to reincarnate over and over again, all those reincarnations would undoubtedly be meta-simultaneous, throughout your life.
“In a sense, they all occur at the same time in the non-terminal domain.”
But this state of being is not the afterlife. It’s more like existing in a supercomputer where everything is around you, but at the same time nothing is happening.
The afterlife is something completely different. It involves a profound shift in our entire being, moving the ‘soul’ or consciousness beyond the physical or mental self.
Langan sees god as the identity of certain qualities we can see around us, but not necessarily a deity in heaven.
He calls CTMU a real ‘Theory of Everything’. It is based on three key assumptions. The first is that reality consists of information in the form of language.
This is a variation on the self-simulation hypothesis, which suggests that everything is information that people define as thoughts.
The second assumption is that reality is “transtemporal,” meaning that things from one timeline can influence things in other timelines.
And the third is that our self-simulated reality contains a ‘substrate’ of this information – a ‘pan-consciousness’ that emanates from the creator or simulator itself.