Synchronicity from Synchronized Chaos

The dynamical systems paradigm of synchronized chaos may realize the philosophical notion of “synchronicity”. Effectively unpredictable chaotic systems commonly exhibit a predictable relationship when they are coupled through only a few of many variables, a relationship that can be highly intermittent in realistic configurations, as with philosophical “synchronicities”. Synchronicities are meaningful, as philosophically required, if meaningfulness is related to internal coherence. Internal synchronization indeed facilitates synchronization with an external system as illustrated for systems that exhibit oscillons, primitive time-varying coherent structures. The philosophical notion of synchronicity between matter and mind is realized dynamically if mind is analogized to a computer model assimilating data from observations, as in meteorology. Synchronicity-as-synchronized-chaos has useful implications both for neuroscience and for basic physics. In the former realm, it appears that representations based on synchronized chaotic oscillators are useful for global combinatorial optimization, as in perceptual grouping, and for fusion of alternative representations of an objective process, as may give rise to consciousness. Basic physical synchronicity is manifest in the nonlocal quantum connections implied by Bell’s theorem. The quantum world seems to reside on a generalized synchronization “manifold”, that one can either take as primitive or as evidence of a multiply-connected spacetime.