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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