(Ok Police fans - you knew there had to be two of them.) I wanted to discuss this subject a little further as well as introduce some related QM issues. Synchronicity is seen as a phenomenon related closely to the anthropic principle. Events which are said to be synchronous are linked by their meaning and seem to occur in a meaningful way together, but lack any solid causal relationship. Without a sentient observer or a consciousness, there can be no synchronicity, no synchronous relationship to observe. The anthropic principle (often maligned by mainstream science) asserts that is only logical to assume that there is a given bias in this universe for conditions which produce life and consciousness (i.e. human beings.) This is a very logical argument, in fact its very hard to refute it in any logical way. To insist that the universe just so happens to be one tiny bubble floating in absolute nothingness (or FedEx packing-peanuts) that just so happens to grow people, is a ridiculous assertion. I am not saying that there might not be universes where people do not exist, for I am certain that those places do exist. Logic and MWI cosmology tell us that there should be an infinite number of universes (many with different outcomes*) I do believe that each universe holds within it a sort of intrinsic tendency toward producing sentient life and that it cannot exist as a functional universe without the element of consciousness. Consciousness comes in many flavors, even more than Baskin Robins could dream of! Below is a real-life example of synchronicity taken from Wikipedia:
"The French writer Émile Deschamps claims in his memoirs that in 1805, he was treated to some plum pudding by a stranger named Monsieur de Fortgibu. Ten years later, the writer encountered plum pudding on the menu of a Paris restaurant and wanted to order some, but the waiter told him that the last dish had already been served to another customer, who turned out to be de Fortgibu. Many years later, in 1832, Émile Deschamps was at a diner and was once again offered plum pudding. He recalled the earlier incident and told his friends that only de Fortgibu was missing to make the setting complete—and in the same instant, the now senile de Fortgibu entered the room."
* Please read the entry entitled "What Is And What Should Never Be" for a more lengthy explanation of this concept. If there should be an infinite number of universes, then any attempt to catalog or categorize them all is simply an exercise in futility, and each universe is in its own way both "real" and "unreal." It all boils down to the fact that reality is always a local concept, and any given reality is only as real as it needs to be. Reality has one core theme, "functionality." A person is said to be sane if they are able to function within a society and its many modes of action. Sanity and insanity are legal terms.
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