Without a naturalistic account of which divine attributes (omniscience, necessary existence, moral perfection) could be substrate-dependent, the claim conflates metaphor with emergence.
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Something that needs a physical base or foundation to exist—like how a thought might depend on having a functioning brain, even if the thought itself isn't just brain activity.
divine attributes(as used in philosophy of religion)
Qualities or characteristics traditionally said to belong to God, such as being all-knowing, all-powerful, or loving.
metaphor(Ricoeur's account, contrasted with the substitution-of-names view)
A peculiar predication consisting in the attribution to logical subjects of predicates that are incompossible with them
omniscience(The passage tests omniscience against mathematical undecidability)
The property of knowing everything; used here to probe whether divine knowledge extends to undecided mathematical propositions.