This paper proposes a Second-Physics blueprint for renewing the role of the U.S. dollar as the keycurrency after the end of the petrodollar system. For roughly four centuries, modern science hasmaintained a deliberate separation between “hard physics” and questions of God, the soul, andresponsibility. Since the seventeenth century, figures such as Galileo, Descartes, and Newton helpedconstruct a world in which matter and motion could be treated with mathematical precision, whilesouls and dignity were left to religion or private belief.In my recent work What Is a Soul?, I formalise the soul in mathematically explicit terms. Within thebroader framework I call Second Physics, I bring souls and responsibility back into the same formallanguage that physics reserves for matter and energy. Against that background, this paper exploreswhat that formal move implies for the contemporary American-led order.First, I analyse dollar hegemony and the petrodollar system as a predatory equilibrium: aconfiguration in which one subsystem of the global economy lowers its own entropy by extractingenergy and resources from the rest, while exporting debt and environmental burden. Second, I arguethat the rise of digital eugenics—ranking and sorting human beings by genetic, cognitive, andbehavioural data—constitutes a structural betrayal of the founding claim that all persons are equalin dignity “under a Creator.” Third, I sketch how Second Physics reconstructs the non-fungibility ofsouls by treating a person as a non-severable, multidimensional trajectory in relational space.Finally, I outline a scenario in which the United States attempts to shift from petrodollar hegemonytoward AI-based soft power rooted in Second Physics: an alignment regime in which soul syntaxfunctions as an “ultimate cipher” for constraining AI, and in which equal dignity re-enters thesystem as a formal limit on what markets, states, and algorithms may do to the human soul.
Toshisada Utsunomiya (Wed,) studied this question.