Coincidance - Principia Discordia

COINCIDANCE 153
principle) Jung and Pauli called synchronicity because they assumed it was at
tight angles to causality and structured in space, not time. That is, the
synchronicities (from the Greek, syn, together, and chronos, time) happen at
the same time.
The relation between synchronous events, according to Jung, is basically
psychological. The logic, in other words, is the logic of the deep psyche,
which Jung (and Freud) had found in dreams and myths.
Barbara Honegger, a leading student of these matters, has pointed out a
basic defect in the Jung-Pauli theory. ACOPs are by no means only
synchronous. They are often separated by days or even years.
A new light was shed on ACOPs in 1964 by the Scots physicist John Bell.
Bell's theorem holds that if quantum physics is accurate, particles that were
once in contact continue to influence one another, no matter how far apart
they move. This influence is instantaneous, according to Bell, even if the
particles are at opposite ends of the Universe.
This makes a nasty problem for physicists because Bell's conclusion
directly contradicts Einstein's special relativity, which holds that any
influence between particles must require an energy transfer, and energy
cannot move instantaneously. Energy only moves at the speed of light or
less. Bell's theorem provides a possible mechanism at the quantum level for
the acausal interaction of apparently unrelated events. Whether it can be
applied beyond the strange world of subatomic particles is a question so far
without a firm answer.
Four experiments have confirmed Bell's math; two have cast doubt on it;
research is continuing. Meanwhile, some physicists have started reflecting
on how to reconcile Bell with Einstein, if both are right. Dr. Evan Harris
Walker has suggested that the "influence" in the Bell connection does not
involve energy and hence does not contradict Einstein. The influence,
Walker proposes, is consciousness itself.
Dr. lack Sarfat ti offers a different interpretation. The medium of the Bell
interconnectedness, he says, is not consciousness but information. Now,
information is very abstract in communication theory: it is the negative
reciprocal of entropy, which means roughly that it is the opposite of
disorder, it is almost what we call system or organization in daily speech.
Information, Sarfatti proposes, is not bound by the same laws as energy and
not subject to Einsteinian limits.
This would explain a great many of the ACOPs collected by Jung,
Kammerer, Koestler and others; it might even explain the Hardy-Harvie
experiment, in which randomizing led to more order rather than more
disorder. And it throws all of the data of parapsychology into a new
Perspective: instead of separate paranormal abilities such as ESP, precognition