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Christopher Langan - Described as “America’s smartest man”

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Christopher Michael Langan (born c. 1952) is an American autodidact with an IQ reported to be between 195 and 210.[1] He has been described as “the smartest man in America” by the media. Langan has developed a “theory of the relationship between mind and reality” which he calls the “Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU)”

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In conjunction with his ideas, Langan has claimed that “you can prove the existence of God, the soul and an afterlife, using mathematics.”[6]

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Langan is a fellow of the International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design (ISCID),[23] a professional society which promotes intelligent design

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Gladwell’s profile of Langan mainly portrayed him as an example of an individual who failed to realize his potential in part because of poor social skills resulting from, in Gladwell’s speculation, being raised in poverty

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