Synchronicity From Synchronized Chaos

TL;DR

This paper explores the phenomenon of synchronization in chaotic systems and its philosophical implications, suggesting that internal synchronization underpins meaningful synchronicity and may relate to consciousness and quantum nonlocality.

Contribution

It proposes a new perspective linking synchronized chaos, internal synchronization, and philosophical notions of meaningful synchronicity, bridging physics, psychology, and philosophy.

Findings

Chaotic oscillators can exhibit predictable, intermittent relationships.

Internal synchronization may underlie meaningful synchronicity.

Quantum nonlocality relates to physical manifestations of synchronicity.

Abstract

The synchronization of loosely coupled chaotic oscillators, a phenomenon investigated intensively for the last two decades, may realize the philosophical notion of synchronicity. Effectively unpredictable chaotic systems, coupled through only a few variables, commonly exhibit a predictable relationship that can be highly intermittent. We argue that the phenomenon closely resembles the notion of meaningful synchronicity put forward by Jung and Pauli if one identifies "meaningfulness" with internal synchronization, since the latter seems necessary for synchronizability with an external system. Jungian synchronization of mind and matter is realized if mind is analogized to a computer model, synchronizing with a sporadically observed system as in meteorological data assimilation. Internal synchronization provides a recipe for combining different models of the same objective process, a configuration that may also describe the functioning of conscious brains. In contrast to Pauli's view, recent developments suggest a materialist picture of semi-autonomous mind, existing alongside the observed world, with both exhibiting a synchronistic order. Basic physical synchronicity is manifest in the non-local quantum connections implied by Bell's theorem. The quantum world resides on a generalized synchronization "manifold", a view that provides a bridge between nonlocal realist interpretations and local realist interpretations that constrain observer choice .