User:Scarpy/Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe

The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU) is a metaphysical theory of reality as a self-referential, self-generating mathematical language. It is sometimes described as a theory of everything.

Probably garbage

 * https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dirk-Meijer-5/publication/364352623_To_Be_or_Not_to_Be_in_a_Super-Deterministic_Cosmos_The_Concept_of_a_Retro-causal_Reconstructive_Universe_in_a_Self-learning_Mode/links/634e81c46e0d367d91a873ef/To-Be-or-Not-to-Be-in-a-Super-Deterministic-Cosmos-The-Concept-of-a-Retro-causal-Reconstructive-Universe-in-a-Self-learning-Mode.pdf
 * https://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/viewFile/918/921
 * http://www.jamia-physics.net/phd/physjmi_thesis2020.pdf
 * https://www.prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/viewFile/1787/1679

Relationship to intelligent design
Intelligent design relies on irreducible complexity, the idea that certain biological traits are complex enough that they could not have evolved in incremental modifications through natural selection. The CTMU is one way for intelligent design advocates to answer the question of how biological traits of irreducible complexity come to exist. 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. A similar line of reasoning follows for the explanation of the physical laws of the universe as part of the teleological argument.

The seminal paper published on the CTMU appeared in the journal Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design which was published by an organization associated with Christian creationism, the International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design. CTMU literature also claims that the CTMU can be used to prove God's existence. However, God as described by the CTMU is not a conventional anthropomorphic God, or a supernatural deliberate creator of the universe. As the CTMU asserts that the universe created itself, a God as a prime mover that exists outside of the universe is redundant. Rather the CTMU suggests God exists inside the universe and the universe as a whole resembles a supreme mind or intelligence. Furthermore, in the CTMU biological evolution is seen as progressing on top of self-generating processes of the universe.

Role of language

 * Languages progress in goal-directed ways attempting to maximize utility in specific domains.
 * 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.
 * Preservation of perception creates information and requires cognition (as related to the name of the model).
 * Mind and physical reality are connected through a network of linguistic relationships as are individual minds to the universal mind.
 * In this model, time is an emergent relationship between languages, with later languages extending earlier ones.

Influences and related concepts

 * The CTMU derives some inspiration from John Archibald Wheeler's geometrodynamics and digital physics, but also criticizes it as "informational reductionism."
 * The CTMU shares some similar features with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's philosophy, particularly the concept of a world-spirit that over time gains knowledge of itself and eventually reaches a stage where "thought thinks itself."
 * The CTMU also has some similarities to Alain Badiou's attempts at using mathematical language to explain reality as a tautologically self-organizing and self-designing system.
 * The CTMU has much in common with cybernetics and systems theory.

Unapproachability of papers published on the CTMU
Both artificial intelligence researcher Ben Goertzel and computer scientist Mark Chu-Carroll remarked that the material published on the CTMU uses terminology and neologisms in a way that makes it difficult to understand.