Re: Toughts on Sinchronicity

On 2025-03-17, anthk <anthk@openbsd.home> wrote:

I've read the book on Sinchronicity by David F. Peat, which just summarizes
and explain the theory created from Jung/Pauli (and a bit of Bohm). What do
you think about it? Also, "The Ending of Time" by Bohm and Krishnamurti

Would love it if you summarized the theory, as you understand it. The only
notion I have of synchronicity is "meaningful coincidence". That is, when there
is no actual cause-effect connection between two things, but we perceive it as
meaningful because our mind is primed to notice it.

One classic example is, when you roll a die ten times and get

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

is that more meaningful than when you get

5 2 4 1 2 2 6 3 6 4

And the answer is, of course the first result is meaningful -- the mind notices
a pattern of all ones, and it seems to be an amazing cooincidence. And let's say
the mind doesn't notice a pattern in the second result. So it seems much less
meaningful to the mind. So the first is much more meaningful to the mind than
the second.

But of course the second pattern is equally unlikely as the first. That is, the
chances of a 2 following a 5, followed by a 4, followed by a 1, and so on, is
just as remote as a 1 following a 1, followed by a 1, and so on.

So the mind, when it assigns meaning to the first, is experiencing synchronicity
-- meaningful coincidence. And when it assigns no meaning to the second, the
mind is experiencing no synchronicity.