That PDF, if you find it, won’t give you easy answers. But it might give you a new question: If the universe is thinking itself right now, are you the thought — or the thinker?

For centuries, the dominant paradigm in physics and cosmology has been —the belief that consciousness is a byproduct of physical processes. Matter comes first; mind emerges later. However, a growing number of theoretical scientists and philosophers have begun to explore the inverse proposition: What if consciousness is not an emergent property, but the primary substrate of reality?

The universe is a "self-configuring, self-processing language."

Langan presents the CTMU as a "supertautology," meaning it is a self-contained, logically undeniable extension of logic that requires no external assumptions to be true. Accessing the PDF