> The synchronization of loosely-coupled chaotic oscillators, a phenomenon investigated intensively for the last two decades, may realize the philosophical concept of “synchronicity”—the commonplace notion that related eventsmysteriously occur at the same time. When extended to continuous media and/or large discrete arrays, and when general (non-identical) correspondences are considered between states, intermittent synchronous relationships indeed become ubiquitous. Meaningful synchronicity follows naturally if meaningful events are identified with coherent structures, defined by internal synchronization between remote degrees of freedom; a condition that has been posited as necessary for synchronizability with an external system. The important case of synchronization between mind and matter is realized if mind is analogized to a computer model, synchronizing with a sporadically observed system, as in meteorological data assimilation. Evidence for the ubiquity of synchronization is reviewed along with recent proposals that: (1) synchronization of different models of the same objective process may be an expeditious route to improved computational modeling and may also describe the functioning of conscious brains; and (2) the nonlocality in quantum phenomena implied by Bell’s theorem may be explained in a variety of deterministic (hidden variable) interpretations if the quantum world resides on a generalized synchronization “manifold”.
> - I quote. “I express the timid hope that in the second part there will be words about a critical analysis of the causes of those visions that you visited, and about the relation of these visions to physical reality.”
> - At first, I couldn’t think of anything else about a very general idea, which I found hard to accept, but based on all the experience that I went through over the past five years. There are inhuman minds around us. By the word "mind" I mean here an information system with memory, motivation, ability to model the external world and to plan. They are not "aliens", but natively earthly and, most likely, evolutionarily older than humans. These minds actively (and sometimes negatively) affect people's lives.
> The world of these minds is very complex, maybe even comparable in complexity to that part of the world as a whole, which we now call physical reality. I would not like to speculate about the structure of this world, because I lack facts, observations for this. Even the simplest questions for today for me do not have clear answers. I am sure that these minds interact with people. Almost sure with higher animals. And how do they interact with lower animals? With inanimate matter? Considerations of logical consistency, which should satisfy the complete picture of the world, suggest that somehow interact. In this sense, they too are part of "physical reality." It's just a part about which we know very, very little. This part of the world must be studied and studied using scientific methodology.
> Of course, there have been attempts at such a study. Especially at the end of the nineteenth century, but then there were not enough opportunities for this. Now it seems to me that such a study can begin with the group of phenomena that Jung called sinchronicity. Simply, it is unnatural from the point of view of existing models, patterns in individual and collective behavior of people. In Russian, this, as I understood from the comments to the first part of the interview, is called "synchrony".
> Now, for the first time, the possibility has arisen of such patterns documented (ie, instrumental) to fix, and begin to understand their structure. It appeared due to the existence of a huge number of records of both human speech (for example, interviews on radio stations) and human movements (for example, "security cameras" at airports). These data need to be analyzed taking into account their binding to physical time. I am pretty sure that in this way it is possible to detect patterns in the behavior of people who, on the one hand, are not explained by their conscious activity and, on the other hand, are too complex and too precisely tied to objective (physical) time so that they can be attributed to individual subconsciousnesses.
> I personally do not want to do this, although I sometimes feel internal pressure pushing me in this direction. I really hope that there will be people who have both access to the necessary data and the courage and desire to deal with this problem. It will be a real science. From here the chain will be drawn to the present understanding of the structure and driving forces of the historical process, and then the process of evolution of life in general.
> Synchronicity from Synchronized Chaos, Gregory S. Duane
> Source: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/17/4/1701
> The synchronization of loosely-coupled chaotic oscillators, a phenomenon investigated intensively for the last two decades, may realize the philosophical concept of “synchronicity”—the commonplace notion that related eventsmysteriously occur at the same time. When extended to continuous media and/or large discrete arrays, and when general (non-identical) correspondences are considered between states, intermittent synchronous relationships indeed become ubiquitous. Meaningful synchronicity follows naturally if meaningful events are identified with coherent structures, defined by internal synchronization between remote degrees of freedom; a condition that has been posited as necessary for synchronizability with an external system. The important case of synchronization between mind and matter is realized if mind is analogized to a computer model, synchronizing with a sporadically observed system, as in meteorological data assimilation. Evidence for the ubiquity of synchronization is reviewed along with recent proposals that: (1) synchronization of different models of the same objective process may be an expeditious route to improved computational modeling and may also describe the functioning of conscious brains; and (2) the nonlocality in quantum phenomena implied by Bell’s theorem may be explained in a variety of deterministic (hidden variable) interpretations if the quantum world resides on a generalized synchronization “manifold”.
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Related: Automatic translation of an interview with recently passed-away Mathematician Vladimir Voevodsky.
Source: https://baaltii1.livejournal.com/200269.html
> - I quote. “I express the timid hope that in the second part there will be words about a critical analysis of the causes of those visions that you visited, and about the relation of these visions to physical reality.”
> - At first, I couldn’t think of anything else about a very general idea, which I found hard to accept, but based on all the experience that I went through over the past five years. There are inhuman minds around us. By the word "mind" I mean here an information system with memory, motivation, ability to model the external world and to plan. They are not "aliens", but natively earthly and, most likely, evolutionarily older than humans. These minds actively (and sometimes negatively) affect people's lives.
> The world of these minds is very complex, maybe even comparable in complexity to that part of the world as a whole, which we now call physical reality. I would not like to speculate about the structure of this world, because I lack facts, observations for this. Even the simplest questions for today for me do not have clear answers. I am sure that these minds interact with people. Almost sure with higher animals. And how do they interact with lower animals? With inanimate matter? Considerations of logical consistency, which should satisfy the complete picture of the world, suggest that somehow interact. In this sense, they too are part of "physical reality." It's just a part about which we know very, very little. This part of the world must be studied and studied using scientific methodology.
> Of course, there have been attempts at such a study. Especially at the end of the nineteenth century, but then there were not enough opportunities for this. Now it seems to me that such a study can begin with the group of phenomena that Jung called sinchronicity. Simply, it is unnatural from the point of view of existing models, patterns in individual and collective behavior of people. In Russian, this, as I understood from the comments to the first part of the interview, is called "synchrony".
> Now, for the first time, the possibility has arisen of such patterns documented (ie, instrumental) to fix, and begin to understand their structure. It appeared due to the existence of a huge number of records of both human speech (for example, interviews on radio stations) and human movements (for example, "security cameras" at airports). These data need to be analyzed taking into account their binding to physical time. I am pretty sure that in this way it is possible to detect patterns in the behavior of people who, on the one hand, are not explained by their conscious activity and, on the other hand, are too complex and too precisely tied to objective (physical) time so that they can be attributed to individual subconsciousnesses.
> I personally do not want to do this, although I sometimes feel internal pressure pushing me in this direction. I really hope that there will be people who have both access to the necessary data and the courage and desire to deal with this problem. It will be a real science. From here the chain will be drawn to the present understanding of the structure and driving forces of the historical process, and then the process of evolution of life in general.