Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see
Zurich, 1900
Mrs. Standoffishy had a weird dream last night. By no means that’s her real name though she
actually dreamed something unusual. That’s why her psychiatrist left a lengthy note about it:
believe in coincidences. At this time, the scientific world-view is firmly built on the concept of
"cause and effect." This means anything that isn’t measurable and verifiable is questionable. Weird
facts do happen, yet they are considered as “just a coincidence.”
For this reason, it took a lot of nerve for Jung to take on the subject and give it a name:
synchronicity. When someone dreams of an unusual event, and the next day that same event
actually happens in another part of the world, then we are dealing with a case of synchronicity.
Synchronicity, according to Jung’s own words, is a mixture of circumstances in a way that cannot
be explained by the cause and effect principle yet it is meaningful to the observer.
So, it also turns out that it all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in
themselves.
Jung’s theory is not merely philosophical as he believed that there are parallels between
synchronicity and some aspects of both the theory of relativity and Quantum mechanics. He was ofthe idea that life is not a collection of unpredictable odd events but rather an expression of a more
in-depth order. This order is the governing dynamic which underlies the whole of human
experience, from his history to his emotions and spiritual life. So every person is part of a broader
order and in turn embedded in an orderly framework; even more: the man is the focus of that
framework.
From a religious perspective, synchronicity has elements of spiritual awakening and shares similar
characteristics of an "intervention of grace". Looking with physicist’s lenses, this is in perfect
agreement with the discoveries of Quantum Mechanics as Jung himself affirmed: “it is not only
possible but fairly probable, even, that psyche and matter are two different aspects of the same
thing.”
You might be wondering what does all this matter with a computer simulation? What is the
connection between an ordered framework governed by a deep order, a Universe where all the
points are connected to each other, and even a Moon which threatens to disappear as we stop
observing it?
All this madness only makes sense if we assume that the world is a virtual construct. A playground
where everything is possible, as long as you know how the simulation has been programmed.
In a simulated reality, the distance between objects is just an illusion since all points in a simulation
are equidistant with respect to the source of the simulation.
Also, in a simulated reality, objects which are not observed by you are not rendered on the screen,
yet they are stored in memory so that they can be displayed when the next player moves nearby.
This is an underlying software optimization, which saves a considerable amount of time on
computing resources needed to render graphics.
Actually, any rule which appears determinant in our reality, like space or time, is barely a variable
of the simulated reality, that could be changed at any time.
As you can see, many unexplained facts of physics can be easily solved by assuming that, behind
the curtain, our life is a simulated reality, made of non-material forms, exactly as it appears when
looking at the micro world of Quantum.
In spite of so many connections between Quantum Physics and the Simulation Hypothesis, you can
mostly hear about that on specialized talks now and then. Probably this is not so much due to the
inherent complexity of Quantum Physics —which is actually a baffling theory even with a good
understanding of physics and mathematics— but rather to its ideological implications. So
destabilizing to undermine the foundations on all our knowledge from science to philosophy, from
ethics to religion.
By all means, a few centuries ago a Quantum physicist might have ended his quest in the fire.
Mrs. Standoffishy had a weird dream last night. By no means that’s her real name though she
actually dreamed something unusual. That’s why her psychiatrist left a lengthy note about it:
“I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life — that is to say,
over 35 — there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
My example concerns a young woman patient who, in spite of efforts made on both sides, proved to be psychologically inaccessible. The difficulty lay in the fact that she always knew better about everything. Her excellent education had provided her with a weapon ideally suited to this purpose, namely a highly polished Cartesian rationalism with an impeccably "geometrical" idea of reality.
After several fruitless attempts to sweeten her rationalism with a somewhat more human
understanding, I had to confine myself to the hope that something unexpected and irrational would turn up, something that would burst the intellectual retort into which she had sealed herself. Well, I was sitting opposite her one day, with my back to the window, listening to her flow of rhetoric.
She had an impressive dream the night before, in which someone had given her a golden scarab — a costly piece of jewelry. While she was still telling me this dream, I heard something behind me gently tapping on the window. I turned round and saw that it was a fairly large flying insect that was knocking against the window-pane from outside in the obvious effort to get into the dark room.
This seemed to me very strange. I opened the window immediately and caught the insect in the air as it flew in. It was a scarabaeid beetle, or common rose-chafer (Cetonia aurata), whose gold-green color most nearly resembles that of a golden scarab. I handed the beetle to my patient with the words, “Here is your scarab".
This experience punctured the desired hole in her rationalism and broke the ice of her intellectual resistance. The treatment could now be continued with satisfactory results.”The person who is taking notes is Carl Jung (1875 – 1961), and he is a kind of person who doesn’t
believe in coincidences. At this time, the scientific world-view is firmly built on the concept of
"cause and effect." This means anything that isn’t measurable and verifiable is questionable. Weird
facts do happen, yet they are considered as “just a coincidence.”
For this reason, it took a lot of nerve for Jung to take on the subject and give it a name:
synchronicity. When someone dreams of an unusual event, and the next day that same event
actually happens in another part of the world, then we are dealing with a case of synchronicity.
Synchronicity, according to Jung’s own words, is a mixture of circumstances in a way that cannot
be explained by the cause and effect principle yet it is meaningful to the observer.
So, it also turns out that it all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in
themselves.
Jung’s theory is not merely philosophical as he believed that there are parallels between
synchronicity and some aspects of both the theory of relativity and Quantum mechanics. He was ofthe idea that life is not a collection of unpredictable odd events but rather an expression of a more
in-depth order. This order is the governing dynamic which underlies the whole of human
experience, from his history to his emotions and spiritual life. So every person is part of a broader
order and in turn embedded in an orderly framework; even more: the man is the focus of that
framework.
From a religious perspective, synchronicity has elements of spiritual awakening and shares similar
characteristics of an "intervention of grace". Looking with physicist’s lenses, this is in perfect
agreement with the discoveries of Quantum Mechanics as Jung himself affirmed: “it is not only
possible but fairly probable, even, that psyche and matter are two different aspects of the same
thing.”
You might be wondering what does all this matter with a computer simulation? What is the
connection between an ordered framework governed by a deep order, a Universe where all the
points are connected to each other, and even a Moon which threatens to disappear as we stop
observing it?
All this madness only makes sense if we assume that the world is a virtual construct. A playground
where everything is possible, as long as you know how the simulation has been programmed.
In a simulated reality, the distance between objects is just an illusion since all points in a simulation
are equidistant with respect to the source of the simulation.
Also, in a simulated reality, objects which are not observed by you are not rendered on the screen,
yet they are stored in memory so that they can be displayed when the next player moves nearby.
This is an underlying software optimization, which saves a considerable amount of time on
computing resources needed to render graphics.
Actually, any rule which appears determinant in our reality, like space or time, is barely a variable
of the simulated reality, that could be changed at any time.
As you can see, many unexplained facts of physics can be easily solved by assuming that, behind
the curtain, our life is a simulated reality, made of non-material forms, exactly as it appears when
looking at the micro world of Quantum.
In spite of so many connections between Quantum Physics and the Simulation Hypothesis, you can
mostly hear about that on specialized talks now and then. Probably this is not so much due to the
inherent complexity of Quantum Physics —which is actually a baffling theory even with a good
understanding of physics and mathematics— but rather to its ideological implications. So
destabilizing to undermine the foundations on all our knowledge from science to philosophy, from
ethics to religion.
By all means, a few centuries ago a Quantum physicist might have ended his quest in the fire.
