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Are there any theoretical universal models

that are not causal by nature? For instance, if
this was a simulation as suggested, then how
might the rules be different?
Chris Langan
Answered Apr 26

Yes. The definitive theory is called the CTMU, short for Cognitive Theoretic Model of
the Universe. Publications date from the late 1980’s through the present, most
recently in the peer-reviewed academic journal Cosmos and History. Technically, it is
a theory of mathematical metaphysics.

Basically, the CTMU says that reality is an ontologically closed “self-simulation” in

the precise sense that it contains empirically undecidable “programming” as well as
“displayed” observational content, and that its logico-mathematical structure is that
of a self-structuring, self-axiomatizing “SCSPL”, short for Self-Configuring Self-
Processing Language. This language has a unique form called a supertautology,
according to which its evolution is metacausal rather than strictly causal.

In addition, the CTMU embodies a logical form of self-similarity analogous to the so-
called “holographic principle” as later developed in connection with string theory.
Accordingly, it is trialic, effecting a distributive coincidence of theory, universe, and
model in a coherent “metaformal system”.

Last but not least, the CTMU was authored by a man reputed, at least in some circles,
to be the most intelligent in the world.

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