Synchronicity

Synchronicity (German Synchronizität) is a concept of Carl Gustav Jung (German Carl Gustav Jung, "Synchronizität als ein Prinzip akausaler Zusammenhänge", 1952): a meaningful coincidence of events not connected by cause and effect.

Jung's definition. Jung defined synchronicity as "a meaningful coincidence of two or more events in which something other than random probability is involved".

Three Types of Synchronicity

1. Coincidence of a psychic state with an external event (a thought of a person → a phone call)
2. Coincidence of an inner image with a distant event (clairvoyance)
3. Coincidence of an inner image with a future event (precognition)

Joint Work with Pauli

Jung and Pauli. Jung developed the concept together with the physicist Wolfgang Pauli (Nobel laureate). This is a rare example of cooperation between psychology and quantum physics at the ontological level.

Synchronicity in Errarium

The key principle of generative methods. In the Errarium context, synchronicity is the key principle behind the workings of generative methods: the I Ching (#6), Tarot (#20), the runic oracle (#21).

Acausal resonance. The user interacts with the symbols not through causality (C0-C2), but through acausal resonance (C3).

Criticism and Defense

Apophenia vs archetypes. Critics point to apophenia (the tendency to find patterns in randomness); defenders point to the archetypal structure of the unconscious manifesting through the symbol.