Human Singularity

The Human Singularity is a concept advanced by Christopher Michael Langan in his 2018 paper Metareligion as the Human Singularity, published in Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy. In this context, the Human Singularity refers to a prospective evolutionary threshold in which humanity undergoes a collective spiritual awakening, achieving a unified sense of identity that spans both individual and cosmic levels of reality. Langan positions it as the positive counterpart to the “Technological Singularity,” emphasizing distributed empowerment, spiritual coherence, and self-governance rather than centralized control through advanced technology. Drawing on his Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU), Langan argues that the Human Singularity would emerge through the development of a “metareligion”—a logical and metaphysical framework capable of reconciling science and spirituality—and that this outcome is necessary to preserve human dignity and avoid dehumanization in an increasingly technological world.