Philosophical Speculations

Brian Wachter wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 7:21 pm Frequent coincidences of the meaningful variety have haunted me for years. But maybe not so much any more thanks to relational quantum mechanics. If interactions are the ontological primitive, rather than objects, my interaction with my surroundings has room for such happenings as, say, a cat food commercial popping up the instant I mention the Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment.

I suppose mind at large has an explanation for synchronicity, as well, but I haven't encountered it in my reading of Kastrup. Do any of you know BK's take? And what's your thinking?

Soul_of_Shu wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 7:30 pm I expect that BK's take on synchronicity would be in line with Jung's. You may have already read it, but in Decoding Jung's Metaphysics, he dedicates Chapter 4 to that topic.

DandelionSoul wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 11:44 pm As a followup, from a perspective where there is a singular, unified M@L, Freya Mathews writes in For Love of Matter pretty extensively on the poetic way in which the world-consciousness communicates with individualized consciousnesses -- synchronicity is a part of her whole theory of eros.

Brian Wachter wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 7:21 pm Frequent coincidences of the meaningful variety have haunted me for years. But maybe not so much any more thanks to relational quantum mechanics. If interactions are the ontological primitive, rather than objects, my interaction with my surroundings has room for such happenings as, say, a cat food commercial popping up the instant I mention the Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment.

I suppose mind at large has an explanation for synchronicity, as well, but I haven't encountered it in my reading of Kastrup. Do any of you know BK's take? And what's your thinking?

DandelionSoul wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 8:44 pm My sense is that it's basically as you say -- our environment and we ourselves are steeped in an interconnected web of meaning, so unexpected points of contact within that web follow pretty naturally. RQM would not deny the web of meaning, only its grounding in a preexisting, singular, unified Mind.

AshvinP wrote: ↑Mon Jul 05, 2021 2:38 am I am not sure why you disliked DJM so much but, as Dana pointed out, you won't get a better analysis of the MAL-idealism connection with Jung's synchronicity concept than what BK wrote there. I thought DJM was very approachable for people well-versed in Jung and those new to him alike. Great footnote quote by the way!

Brian Wachter wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 7:21 pm Frequent coincidences of the meaningful variety have haunted me for years. But maybe not so much any more thanks to relational quantum mechanics. If interactions are the ontological primitive, rather than objects, my interaction with my surroundings has room for such happenings as, say, a cat food commercial popping up the instant I mention the Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment.

I suppose mind at large has an explanation for synchronicity, as well, but I haven't encountered it in my reading of Kastrup. Do any of you know BK's take? And what's your thinking?