A super toy model for scientific

theologyGiulio Prisco

turingchurch.net

Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek suggests that we are like intelligent fish “immersed in a cosmic ocean.”

The water of the cosmic ocean — the quantum vacuum of empty

space — should be thought of as a superconducting material medium

that shapes physical laws.

Modern physics sees empty space as a dynamic “quantum vacuum,” a seething froth sparkling with fields and particles popping in and out of

existence.Fluctuations in the quantum

vacuum have important physical effects and provide a background for physics, like a quantum ether.

Scientists like Grigory Volovik suggest that (what we consider as) real particles living in empty space 

— the quantum vacuum — are really

quasiparticles emerging from a “more real” underlying microscopic

world.

Quasiparticles and collective excitations (I’ll just call them quasiparticles) in a material

substrate can take a life of their own, behave like particles, and give

the substrate properties like superconductivity or superfluidity.

Perhaps fundamental physics is really the physics of quasiparticles in a weird material substrate — the “superfluid vacuum,” a superfluid state of matter in an underlying “trans-Planckian” microscopic

world, which we don’t perceive. If so, the world we perceive is a

quasiworld made of quasiparticles.

Quasiparticles give superconductivity to an underlying

material substrate. It has been suggested that similar mechanisms give consciousness and intelligence

to the brain. Similarly, I am suggesting that the superfluid

vacuum could host some kind of superintelligent consciousness.

Mind emerges from macroscopic quantum physics in the biological

brain, related to the physics of condensed matter systems such as

superfluids.

Mind can run on other condensed matter substrates as well, including

substrates much faster and more powerful than the biological brain.

The quantum vacuum is a superfluid state of some kind of

“condensed matter system” in an underlying “trans-Planckian”

microscopic world.We are quasiobservers in a

quasiworld made of quasiparticles emerging from the base reality of

the superfluid vacuum.

Mind can run on a substrate consisting of nothing but the bare

fabric of space-time, the superfluid vacuum itself.

Non-local fluctuations and pilot-wave fields provide a mechanism for

quantum behavior.

Quantum events and non-local quantum behavior are driven by

trans-Planckian physical processes (or Mind) in the superfluid vacuum.

Stable “Boltzmann Brains” emerge spontaneously from chaotic

fluctuations and evolve much faster than biological evolution.

Mind in the superfluid vacuum achieves God-like superintelligence soon after emerging: not billions of

years, but billionths of a second.

God-like Mind in the superfluid vacuum (or better Plenum) can be called “Num,” the Numen in the

Cosmic Plenum — yet another name of God.

God thinks and acts non-locally, and is able to pilot our reality (Divine

Action). So God is omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, and not

limited by time.

God engineers and drives our reality just like we engineer and drive

materials with desired properties and behaviors (Simulation

Hypothesis).

God starts as an alien, “wholly other” consciousness — an

impersonal It. But It learns from us how to be also a Her and a Him — a

personal, loving and caring God.

This model has room for a hierarchy of gods, from natural

gods to the ultimate, unattainable God.

Conclusions:

This model hints at a physical God that is omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, not limited by time, aware of us, loving and caring, and able to resurrect us after death.

This is also a physical model for the simulation hypothesis. The

superfluid vacuum is the hardware, and our reality (particles, fields,

tables, chairs, and we ourselves) is the data. Thinking of God as the

program/mer, we go back to George Berkeley’s intuition: we are

thoughts in the Mind of God.

Thanks for your time!

Giulio Priscoturingchurch.net