Synchronicities

[Sirius]

I'm fishing for information on synchronicities. If anyone has some good pearls of wisdom, quotes or reading material please share.

How do they work?

[UltraBudgie]

One thing that gets a little muddied is exactly what the difference between synchronicity and coincidence is.

Coincidence is when two events in the material world coincide.

Synchronicity is when an event in the material world coincides with an event in the internal or non-material world. Like, if you think about a friend (internal thought) and the phone rings and it's them calling (external event).

[SideEyeEverything]

Not sure if this is up your alley, but I enjoy this dude's posts on synchronicity.

The Secret Sun Synchronicity Posts

[UltraBudgie]

Here is some mind-fodder. In my opinion synchronicity could be regarded as evidence of multi-solipsism, the recognition of synchronicity being both materially and ontologically generative.

More about multi-solipsism: https://andrewsoltau.com/wp-content/uplo...ipsism.pdf (PDF, 19 pages)

Abstract: The thought experiment of Wigner's friend illustrates that physical reality is different for different observers of the same world. This is now confirmed experimentally by Proietti et al. (2019). This highly counter-intuitive feature of quantum mechanics is greatly simplified in the many-minds perspective of Everett's (1957) formulation taken at face value. This provides a solution with a physical ontology.

In Lockwood (1989) the protagonist of the dynamics is the record of observations, as defined in Everett: who also specifically defines the physical observer as solely the measuring instrument. As the protagonist is a structure of information it is multiply instantiated in a great number of versions of a quasi-classical world in the universe of the unitary wave function. Since these are all coincident, the physical frame of reference of the protagonist is their superposition. The result is a 'class-of-worlds-as- a-world', by definition indeterminate where unobserved. Wigner's friend is explained in a logical manner. Schrödinger's cat is retrodicted, an inevitable feature of this type of frame of reference.

As described in QBism (Fuchs et al., 2013) the world of the protagonist is determinate solely where experienced, effectively a solipsism. As stated by Everett, solipsism fits the facts but it seems philosophically untenable because of the exclusivity. His preferred solution is no collapse. All possible worlds exist. The full explanation is a dual ontology. At the first, primitive level of logical type the universe is all possible decoherent quasi-classical worlds. At the second level it is all possible versions of a class-of-worlds-as-a-world, each one the idiosyncratic physical reality of a protagonist, a 'mind'. This defines a universal system of non-exclusive solipsisms, realities different for different agents as described in QBism. It is these realities that are different for different individuals who are conventionally in the same world. The term individual is here used for such protagonists, and the term observer exclusively for the physical body-mind.

[Sirius]

Here is some mind-fodder. In my opinion synchronicity could be regarded as evidence of multi-solipsism, the recognition of synchronicity being both materially and ontologically generative.

More about multi-solipsism: https://andrewsoltau.com/wp-content/uplo...ipsism.pdf (PDF, 19 pages)

Will check it out

I have another thought experiment.

Look a the Sefirot, go up from Malkhut. Then start at Keter and go down. Then look at the Qlippoth, start with Lilith go up, then down from Thaumiel.

Next you place them next to each other, and draw a snake from Lilith to Malkhut while contemplating her cold embrace all the way up. Back and forth.

Draw some more snakes.

Then stick one of these in between the the Sefirot and the Qlippoth

Ｓ Ａ Ｔ Ｏ Ｒ
Ａ Ｒ Ｅ Ｐ Ｏ
Ｔ Ｅ Ｎ Ｅ Ｔ
Ｏ Ｐ Ｅ Ｒ Ａ
Ｒ Ｏ Ｔ Ａ Ｓ

Focus the centre of the square on your third eye and let the snakes do the rest.

That's my best take on synchronisty right now.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

I'm fishing for information on synchronicities. If anyone has some good pearls of wisdom, quotes or reading material please share.

How do they work?

They don't necessarily, your mind just fixates on things that stand out.

Is September 19th cursed in Mexico?

An 8.0, a 7.1, and 7.6 have occurred in 1985, 2017, 2022 respectively.

People say "YES!! OF COURSE! The day is very cursed." They'll say there has only been about 100 Magnitude 6.5 or greater earthquakes in recorded history so 3 on 1 day is significant.

Yet, the Birthday Paradox applied says you only need to have 23 major earthquakes before a 50% chance 2 share a day.

With 23 earthquakes, everyone has 22 others to be paired with. There are 253 earthquake pair combinations. To get to coin flip likelihood you need 23 for 2. Keep going and you need 88 earthquakes before 3 share a date, and 187 before 4 share a date with 50% odds.

So it's not an ACTUAL cursed day, and there only needs to be 88 earthquakes to have 50% odds 3 share an occurred on date.



Synchronicity is believing variable change is a magical acquisition of probability.

[Sirius]

Synchronicity is believing variable change is a magical acquisition of probability.

Ｒ Ｏ Ｔ Ａ Ｓ Magic is the acquisition of synchronistic probability.

You are very clever!

[Sirius]

And that is exactly how propaganda works too. Control the media, let people think they are rolling the dice.

[UltraBudgie]

See what I mean about the muddying?

"Coincidence of earthquakes is empirically measurable probability, therefore everything behaves that way, therefore synchronicity is merely fuzzy-mindedness."

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

See what I mean about the muddying?

"Coincidence of earthquakes is empirically measurable probability, therefore everything behaves that way, therefore synchronicity is merely fuzzy-mindedness."

But you can apply the likelihood of event occurrence to anything and anything is statistics. Even your thoughts. You carry odds of thinking certain things and even reacting certain ways. We are wired to notice abstract connections and think it has significance. And it's a little too abstract sometimes.

Like how often do you think about your friend and how often do they call? Those have odds too.

How often does a catchy song play in a Top 40 rotation and how likely are you to have an earworm coinciding with turning on the radio?

Unless you believe your mind can be modulated to 93.7 MHz and only occasionally pick up radio signals. Could be something we haven't figured out yet too.

Maybe your mind was always likely to turn on the radio. It could even have a 15 second advantage conscious you is not aware of. A slight lag to give you the illusion you just heard the radio ahead of time. Maybe deja vu is like buffering?

The frame rate in our processors is pretty good though. It smooths things out so nicely we just think we are living in the present moment.

But I was probably always going to post this. I am an ideomotor prisoner.