The quantum field is a higher intelligence?

“I have a much easier time imagining how we understand the Big Bang than I have imagining how we can understand consciousness,” observes Edward Witten, theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey who has been compared to Isaac Newton and Einstein.

According to this Princeton physicist.

I invented a humorous religion bout the idea of a background intelligence, but it was humor. The real answer is that consciousness is greatly overrates, most of what we do is based on unconscious actions. The exception is repetitive practice, and that is what confuses us.  We mistake self training for a higher consciousness.