200 IQ Man Chris Langan Shares His Beliefs About God — Transcript

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1. 0:00if we're talking about a Theory of
2. 0:01Everything the first question we have to
3. 0:03establish does God exist yes simple as
4. 0:07that the reality has an identity the
5. 0:10identity is that as which something
6. 0:12exists matter of fact when you say the
7. 0:14word reality you're naming an identity
8. 0:16it is you're identifying something this
9. 0:20I'm I'm smiling because your your answer
10. 0:22on this is so beautiful it it just
11. 0:24reminds me of of Moses at the burning
12. 0:26bush and Moses at the burning bush says
13. 0:29who shall I tell the people that you are
14. 0:31talking to God and God says tell them I
15. 0:33am that I am that's right I am identity
16. 0:35itself I'm being himself exactly that's
17. 0:38exactly right that's what the ctmu says
18. 0:40it's just comes up with the mathematical
19. 0:42structure that you need to build a
20. 0:44reality out of that you see so you come
21. 0:47up with that identity and then you
22. 0:48search it for its properties you see you
23. 0:50once you've built the preliminary
24. 0:52framework then you start deducing the
25. 0:54properties of this identity and you find
26. 0:56out that those properties match those of
27. 0:59God as described in most of the world's
28. 1:01major religions Buddhism Daoism Hinduism
29. 1:04bism of course Hinduism and bism they
30. 1:06have a God uh Daoism you know they the
31. 1:10their Central principle is the way or
32. 1:13the Dao okay and uh they don't see da as
33. 1:16as uh as God and then in Buddhism of
34. 1:19course you've got you know they they are
35. 1:21trying basically to achieve sun or
36. 1:25emptiness right which is most Buddhists
37. 1:28a lot of Buddhists don't even understand
38. 1:30what that's supposed to mean but once
39. 1:32again there's no God there you can kind
40. 1:34of read God implicitly some Buddhists
41. 1:36I've talked to Buddhists who actually
42. 1:38think that there is a God in Buddhism of
43. 1:39A Sort but that concept of pure
44. 1:43Consciousness is what it is okay and if
45. 1:46you ask them well whose Consciousness
46. 1:47are you talking about they will point at
47. 1:50themselves and say my Consciousness in a
48. 1:52way they're you
49. 1:54know they kind of attribute the
50. 1:57existence of everything to themselves
51. 1:59but anyway when you look at what they've
52. 2:01they've all got you come down to the
53. 2:03same thing everybody has the da or the
54. 2:07way you know that's the way reality
55. 2:08works right and uh and and everybody you
56. 2:12know has sun which is pure syntax right
57. 2:16pure cognition with no instantiation no
58. 2:19content right and then you've got what
59. 2:22what the abrahamic religions call God
60. 2:25it's all the same thing okay but what
61. 2:30are its
62. 2:30properties okay are its properties such
63. 2:33that you can deny the existence of God
64. 2:35or are its properties such that God
65. 2:37definitely has to exist and the answer
66. 2:40is God exists the properties of the
67. 2:43central substance and Central principle
68. 2:45of reality those properties are
69. 2:47attributed to God including of course
70. 2:49you know things like you have the three
71. 2:51O's omniscience omnipotence and
72. 2:53omnipresence but then you've also got
73. 2:55Consciousness God has to be sentient yes
74. 2:58you can establish a personal
75. 3:00relationship with God we're images of
76. 3:03God you know what an image is it's
77. 3:05basically the product of a mapping God
78. 3:07Maps himself into each human being right
79. 3:10that's a very personal thing that God is
80. 3:12doing for us right and I don't
81. 3:15understand how anybody can say that it's
82. 3:17any different we reflect the structure
83. 3:19of the universe each one of us we're
84. 3:21carried by it everything we do we exist
85. 3:23in a medium what is that
86. 3:25Medium right where did it come from what
87. 3:28holds it together what is the unifying
88. 3:30coherence the source of coherence of
89. 3:32that Medium is your claim a pantheistic
90. 3:35claim that God is the universe or the
91. 3:37universe is God and that's that or no or
92. 3:41is God outside of the universe and
93. 3:43created God is greater than well what is
94. 3:46the universe damned if I know you ever
95. 3:48hear the simulation hypothesis yes okay
96. 3:50well the simulation hypothesis is
97. 3:53basically the idea the reality we see
98. 3:54around this physical reality is
99. 3:55simulated on some sort of a an automaton
100. 3:58or or a or a computer the idea is that
101. 4:00you've got some kind of an automaton
102. 4:02running you've got a simulation running
103. 4:03on it and God it's more panentheistic
104. 4:07you know what pantheism is the idea is
105. 4:09that you've got the physical universe
106. 4:11that you see around you but God is Not
107. 4:13confined to the physical Universe okay
108. 4:15an ordinary pantheist thinks assumes
109. 4:19that God is somehow confined to the
110. 4:21universe that there is just what we see
111. 4:23around us and God is in every piece of
112. 4:25it God is distributed over it yeah but
113. 4:28it's uh it's a little a bit more complex
114. 4:30than that because this part of the
115. 4:32universe that we see around us cannot
116. 4:34exist just by itself y okay there are
117. 4:37certain things that it
118. 4:38entails and when you go into those
119. 4:41entailments that's how you get to God
120. 4:43that's how you get to the identity of
121. 4:45reality okay and now to get back to the
122. 4:47to the reality self simulation or at
123. 4:49least that's what I call it self-
124. 4:50simulation but to get back to the
125. 4:52simulation
126. 4:53hypothesis that we're living in the
127. 4:57display of that simulation in addition
128. 5:00to the display there is also a
129. 5:02processing aspect okay and God captures
130. 5:07both of those things it captures both
131. 5:09the display and the
132. 5:11processor what what do you mean I I hate
133. 5:14to put it in in well I mean okay here's
134. 5:15the display you realize the display
135. 5:17contains States y okay you see things
136. 5:20the objects contain states are static y
137. 5:22that's why they're called stat okay
138. 5:24static how do they change well they have
139. 5:26to be processed something has to process
140. 5:28yeah yeah yeah and and in the calculus
141. 5:31for example those are tiny little
142. 5:32infinitesimal intervals okay but they
143. 5:35are not actually contained in the states
144. 5:37themselves they have a neighborhood a
145. 5:39little tangent space or what have you
146. 5:41you know where you can sort of draw
147. 5:42little vectors that suggest that some
148. 5:44kind of processing is going on but the
149. 5:46idea of being a state and being a
150. 5:48process those are two different things y
151. 5:51to the in the ordin ordinary way of
152. 5:53looking at it okay it turns out that you
153. 5:56can't properly describe reality and
154. 5:58causation at all unless you put those
155. 6:00things together somehow and that's what
156. 6:03it takes God to do okay God provides the
157. 6:06processing functionality for your state
158. 6:09you have an internal State an external
159. 6:11State you're a material human being yeah
160. 6:14right like to explain how that is
161. 6:15changing through time you and
162. 6:17maintaining its coherence through time
163. 6:20even as it changes that's what you need
164. 6:22God for how do I make sense of
165. 6:26Consciousness well ordinarily Quantum
166. 6:30mechan you know what quantization is
167. 6:32well you decide what the the ultimate
168. 6:34irreducible objects are turns out that
169. 6:37in order to quantize that theory that I
170. 6:39was talking about that that theory of
171. 6:41identity where you've got the display
172. 6:43and you've got the processor and it's
173. 6:45handling
174. 6:46both it turns out that in order to
175. 6:48handle both of those things you need a
176. 6:51certain kind of quantum that Quantum is
177. 6:54called an identity operator God is the
178. 6:56identity so obviously these little
179. 6:59quantum they have to be they're doing
180. 7:01things they're processing so we can call
181. 7:02them operators right they are identity
182. 7:05operators okay the identity operator has
183. 7:08basically it takes input from the
184. 7:11outside world recognizes it or accepts
185. 7:14it using syntax processes it and then
186. 7:18returns it to the world as external
187. 7:20State okay so things come in then they
188. 7:22are processed right there's throughput
189. 7:25which is you could call that the
190. 7:26subjective or internal state of the
191. 7:28identity operator and then it's returned
192. 7:30to the external universe so what I'm
193. 7:32saying is that's Consciousness and I'm
194. 7:34saying that Consciousness exists in
195. 7:36every part of the universe because those
196. 7:38are the quantum no that's that's what
197. 7:39I'm asking are you telling me that this
198. 7:41table is conscious in that sense yes
199. 7:43generically conscious but it's relying
200. 7:46on our Consciousness to do it there's
201. 7:49levels of Quant okay these are tertiary
202. 7:52Quant they're all put together using
203. 7:54physical localistic forces right but
204. 7:57those are underd determinative they
205. 7:58don't fully determine what happens why
206. 8:02the Heisenberg uncertainty principle for
207. 8:03example it tells you that you know the
208. 8:06the the quantum rules they're
209. 8:07probabalistic right they don't actually
210. 8:09determine events okay so what determines
211. 8:13events we do we don't know how we do it
212. 8:17but we do it when everybody's will is
213. 8:19put together we're all creating the best
214. 8:22possible Universe we can for ourselves
215. 8:24and God is what harmonizes all of our
216. 8:27different perspectives and makes things
217. 8:29happen for all of us at the same time
218. 8:31and if we were doing things correctly
219. 8:33this would be the best of all possible
220. 8:35worlds sadly however we often times make
221. 8:39mistakes and that's what we have to get
222. 8:42out of doing but we can't get out of
223. 8:43doing it until we understand what
224. 8:45reality is what we are and what the
225. 8:47relationship between those two things is
226. 8:49reality is actually generative okay it's
227. 8:52not a fixed manifold everything is being
228. 8:54created all the time not just our states
229. 8:56our states are being recreated right you
230. 8:58know I can cross cross my legs I can
231. 9:00uncross my leg that's that's the uh
232. 9:01that's The Changing State yeah but uh
233. 9:04but the medium around us is changing
234. 9:07when I look at you I'm seeing Michael
235. 9:08mes okay I'm seeing you sitting there
236. 9:11but that means that I'm seeing your
237. 9:12boundary I'm seeing what distinguishes
238. 9:14you from the external environment right
239. 9:16there's a medium around you so I have to
240. 9:18be regenerating that as the same time as
241. 9:20I'm regenerating your state in my head
242. 9:23okay when I say regenerating there
243. 9:25there's a reason I'm doing that I could
244. 9:26also say I'm recognizing Michael nolles
245. 9:29I'm recognizing your state right now but
246. 9:31I'm also recognizing the state of the
247. 9:33medium around you because otherwise I
248. 9:35wouldn't be able to distinguish you from
249. 9:37the medium and you wouldn't exist at all
250. 9:39in the universe everything changes with
251. 9:41time you're actually you know in the
252. 9:44theory of relativity for example all the
253. 9:45points are events y okay and that means
254. 9:47that there's a Time parameter involved
255. 9:49okay God
256. 9:51is outside of time in
257. 9:54space well God God is distributes over
258. 9:57time in space and there's some left over
259. 9:59time and space is static it's a display
260. 10:02yeah imagine you're a little homunculus
261. 10:04inside a computer display like the
262. 10:05Matrix for example okay God not only
263. 10:08distributes over that but there's a
264. 10:10whole other domain where God exists and
265. 10:14that's the processing domain that's the
266. 10:15non-terminal domain in the ctm we're in
267. 10:18the terminal domain right and most
268. 10:21physicists when they try to reason about
269. 10:22the terminal
270. 10:23domain they reason under physical
271. 10:26confinement okay well I can only look at
272. 10:29physics and I have to use what I know
273. 10:32about physics what I can observe about
274. 10:34physics to explain everything else that
275. 10:37I explain so they have that kind of
276. 10:39explanatory closure y going right there
277. 10:42so speaking of this non-terminal domain
278. 10:46in a really basic question do I I'm not
279. 10:49going to ask you if I'm going to go to
280. 10:50heaven or hell but will I go to either
281. 10:51heaven or
282. 10:53hell you will persist after you die okay
283. 10:58where you go to depends on who Michael
284. 11:00nolles really
285. 11:02is I and you would know that better than
286. 11:04anybody yeah I I hope I know that better
287. 11:06than but you're you're telling me I'm
288. 11:08going somewhere
289. 11:11yes you're confident of that I don't
290. 11:13just uh evaporate I don't just turn into
291. 11:15Oblivion well you can if you displease
292. 11:18God that's exactly what's going to
293. 11:20happen to you God is going to cut you
294. 11:22off and he's going to say it I can't see
295. 11:24him anymore he going to turn away from
296. 11:26you and then you won't be able to
297. 11:27reunite salvation will be impossible for
298. 11:30you because salvation means that God has
299. 11:32got to pull you back into himself right
300. 11:34okay but God doesn't want to see you
301. 11:35anymore he doesn't even know you exist
302. 11:37he knows your physical body is there but
303. 11:38he's not interested anymore because you
304. 11:40hate him you deny his existence you
305. 11:42offend him so he's not going to look at
306. 11:44you right so now what happens well okay
307. 11:47you're dead you still want to live
308. 11:49there's something in you that still
309. 11:50desperately wants to live so it's still
310. 11:52going to be there what happens now well
311. 11:55you try to create your own world for
312. 11:56yourself but if you're a bad person or
313. 11:57you're an evil person what kind of world
314. 11:59is that going to be it's going to be an
315. 12:00evil world and that's what we call hell
316. 12:04this is what John Milton says in the
317. 12:06mouth of Satan he says the mind is its
318. 12:08own place and it can make a hell of
319. 12:10heaven or Heaven a hell now you got it
320. 12:12once again what is reality it's reality
321. 12:15just stuff out there no reality has a
322. 12:18mental aspect y right and once you admit
323. 12:21that basically everything has a metal
324. 12:24aspect then of course what's going on in
325. 12:26your mind is real it takes on a kind of
326. 12:28reality it's not same as physical
327. 12:30reality it is nevertheless real are
328. 12:32angels and demons real
329. 12:35yes yes I think so too is there is there
330. 12:39a fear that if you take some of these
331. 12:40drugs you might be letting in the wrong
332. 12:43guys that's a problem isn't it and
333. 12:46that's a problem that I think a lot of
334. 12:48people have encountered you have to be a
335. 12:50certain kind of person to be able to
336. 12:52handle these drugs and not be sucked
337. 12:54under by them okay because once your
338. 12:56mind is messed with and that way
339. 13:00something else you know it's weakened
340. 13:01you know you're not exactly in control
341. 13:03anymore something else can come in and
342. 13:05grab it and if you open up that Gap that
343. 13:07I was talking about what can come into
344. 13:09that Gap might not be good for you God
345. 13:13is real angels are real demons are real
346. 13:15is the devil real oh
347. 13:19yes yes well it has to be you know we
348. 13:22were talking about Michael Noles being
349. 13:23surrounded by the medium and you know
350. 13:25you've got a boundary well God has a
351. 13:27boundary too he's got a very tight
352. 13:28boundary he's a perfect he's perfect he
353. 13:31can't take anything resembling
354. 13:33imperfection right he can't take it into
355. 13:35himself because that would be a
356. 13:36contradiction okay so God needs an
357. 13:40antithesis in order to be properly
358. 13:42defined what is that antithesis anti-
359. 13:45God or Satan so it definitely exists now
360. 13:48Satan isn't coherent because you know he
361. 13:51he basically hates existence
362. 13:53nevertheless he gains coherence through
363. 13:55human beings through secondary Tor as
364. 13:57they're called in the ctmu in other
365. 13:59words Satan can nucleate power
366. 14:01structures for example you know things
367. 14:03like corporations and governments where
368. 14:06you've got people in there that can be
369. 14:07acquired as resources and there's a kind
370. 14:10of skeleton you know a corporate
371. 14:11organization a governmental you know
372. 14:13organization that's holding them
373. 14:15together holding them in place that can
374. 14:16be exploited I'm saying the devil likes
375. 14:20coherence coherence is what brings
376. 14:23everything into
377. 14:24superposition right with itself in other
378. 14:26words it allows something to this is
379. 14:29going to sound a little bit paradoxical
380. 14:30allows something to communicate
381. 14:32non-locally with itself okay right all
382. 14:35of its possible states are in superp
383. 14:36position they exist all all at once okay
384. 14:40and uh this is this is
385. 14:42uh pretty much inescapable
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