Karl Coryat

In 1996, he was a two-day champion on the television game show Jeopardy!^[1] Subsequently, he wrote an online article with advice for prospective Jeopardy! contestants, which included a method to play along at home, keep score, and gauge one's performance. Enthusiasts of the show, and now even the show itself, refer to this as the "Coryat score".^[2][3]

Coryat scores ignore all Final Jeopardy! rounds, wrong Daily Doubles, and only count correct Daily Doubles by the answer value.^{[citation needed]}

As an early member of the Immersion Composition Society, Coryat is the co-author (along with Nicholas Dobson) of The Frustrated Songwriter's Handbook, which details the method that ICS members use to write a large number of songs quickly. Tim Rice-Oxley used the method to write songs for the Keane album Strangeland,^[4] and Jez Williams, guitarist for British band Doves, has cited the book as inspiration for their 2009 album Kingdom of Rust.^[5] Coryat also wrote Guerrilla Home Recording and edited The Bass Player Book (all published by Hal Leonard Corporation). As a music journalist, he has interviewed Prince,^[6] Sting, Geddy Lee, Flea, Brian Wilson, Les Claypool, and others for Bass Player magazine.^{[citation needed]}

As a multi-instrumentalist musician (vocals, bass, guitar, drums, and keyboards), he has been recording music under the name Eddie Current since the 1980s.^[7]

Coryat's essay "Toward an Informational Mechanics" was awarded a Judging Panel Discretionary Prize in the 2012 physics essay competition sponsored by the Foundational Questions Institute and Scientific American magazine.^[8] Drawing on work by John Archibald Wheeler, Carlo Rovelli, and Bob Coecke, the essay calls for a generalization of quantum mechanics that incorporates informational legacy or context into quantum measurements, which might ultimately lead to a description of an "it from bit" universe with the least possible complexity.^[9] He has produced video essays on how the biocentric universe theory of Robert Lanza may be the best route to this.^[10]

As a comedian under the pseudonym Edward Current,^[11] he makes YouTube satires of religious fundamentalism and politics,^[12] as well as serious videos demonstrating physics^[13][14] and criticizing the 9/11 Truth movement.^[15]

Coryat attended Brunswick School and the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Arkansas.^{[citation needed]}

• The Bass Player Book. 1999.
• Guerilla Home Recording: How to Get Great Sound from Any Studio. 2004.
• The Frustrated Songwriter's Handbook: A Radical Guide to Cutting Loose, Overcoming Blocks, and Writing the Best Songs of Your Life. 2006.
• The Simplest-Case Scenario: How the Universe May Be Very Different From What We Think It Is. 2016.