Because all of physicality and the mind exist and interact, they must share a common root. Regardless of whether intermediate layers of reality are as complex as ours, like The Matrix, or if their computation is subtler, that which lies at the root of reality must also be capable of taking form as everything, including the ethereal phenomena known as consciousness. This rootedness and ethereal nature make this ultimate reality worthy of the name “God”....
Now that we see that both consciousness and physicality (mind / body) are ethereal in nature, what is their relationship? According to some discussions of mind-body dualism, it seems as though mind and matter are radically different kinds of stuff lying as the root of reality. However, due to their ethereal nature, it’s not as though we need to extract water from rocks in order to explain their connection. In order for mind and body to interact, they must be rooted in the same deeper reality, and share a common language....
Physicists generally describe their model of the world in mathematical terms, rather than with stories. Describing behaviors around us with math has allowed very accurate predictions of controlled experiments, which have fostered increasingly complex technology. This then raises the philosophical question of what math really is, and whether this math that we’ve discovered or invented as a species is similar to, or radically different than the math that rules the behavior of our cosmos....