A super toy model for scientific theology - presentation given by Giulio Prisco at the online India Awakens Conference, February 12, 2017/

1. A super toy model
for scientific
theology
Giulio Prisco
turingchurch.net

2. 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.

4. 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.

6. 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.

8. 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.

10. 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.

12. 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.

13. Mind emerges from macroscopic
quantum physics in the biological
brain, related to the physics of
condensed matter systems such as
superfluids.

14. Mind can run on other condensed
matter substrates as well, including
substrates much faster and more
powerful than the biological brain.

15. 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.

16. Mind can run on a substrate
consisting of nothing but the bare
fabric of space-time, the superfluid
vacuum itself.

17. Non-local fluctuations and pilot-
wave fields provide a mechanism for
quantum behavior.

18. Quantum events and non-local
quantum behavior are driven by
trans-Planckian physical processes
(or Mind) in the superfluid vacuum.

19. Stable “Boltzmann Brains” emerge
spontaneously from chaotic
fluctuations and evolve much faster
than biological evolution.

20. Mind in the superfluid vacuum
achieves God-like superintelligence
soon after emerging: not billions of
years, but billionths of a second.

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. God engineers and drives our reality
just like we engineer and drive
materials with desired properties
and behaviors (Simulation
Hypothesis).

24. 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.

26. 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.

27. 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.

28. Thanks for your
time!
Giulio Prisco
turingchurch.net