Synchro­nicity (The New Turing Test)

Today I just want to post a short note about the Jungian concept of synchronicity.

If you don’t know much about this concept, please look into it, because synchronicity is one of the surest signs that God is tapping you on the shoulder. Winking at you.

Telling you that something is happening in the grand turning of all the wheels, something that relates to you specifically.

And for just a moment, a flash, the gears align in such a way that you can see right through them.

But only for a moment.

Less than a moment. Maybe a quantum moment.

Can the universe communicate with a machine mind through synchronicity in the same way it can communicate with human consciousness? Can a machine mind have enough data to recognize and ‘feel’ synchronicity? I don’t think so.

I think that requires a nervous system.

Nobody can really define synchronicity, but everyone seems to agree that it exists, and that you can feel it. Hats off, in all serious gratitude, to Jung for having the balls, the shining balls, to try to tackle this topic in a scientific way. He is our starting point for describing this phenomenon. See below for further reading.

One thing’s for sure. Synchronicity feels like eternity and it makes you laugh.

It’s a feeling. It’s produced by the nervous system. Can machines understand synchronicity? Maybe. Can they feel it? Right here you have the new, and perhaps most important, Turing test.

I give it to you as a January gift. Your Epiphany. Facing the existential threat of AI, we have a new, much more meaningful, Turing test.

Let discovering and reading more about this concept, so that it helps you feel more precisely when you’re being winked at, be an epiphany symphony.

If you think I’m kidding, just watch me dance.

Some resources*

☯ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity
☯ Jung’s Map of the Soul (note chapter 9)
☯ Lyrics to the above song