Posted: Jul 29, 2017 12:23 pm
VazScep wrote:I didn't find the quoted sentences objectionable. I'm now an old critic of the idea that humans are anything like computers or that thinking is anything like logic, so much so that I'm long bored of what I have to say. "Synchronicity" is a word that occurred to me a lot when I was in poor mental health, but even then, I was sufficiently sceptical to wonder if we only see synchronicity because humans obsessively synchronise. Meet me at noon! Get your calendars out. We're on the clock. Our perspective on the whole fucking universe is about measuring time, and measuring time is just spotting when different shit is in sync.
There is this somewhat Kantian disease that puts too much emphasis on what happens in the human mind. What I mean here are idealisms that claim it's all the mind shaping the world and reality 'in itself' is some collection of incomprehensible random mystericles. I hate that! Mind is not apart from the world and the mind seeks patterns precisely because patterns are real and the mind is fully embedded in that reality. Group isomorphisms, if I may, are as far as you need go to establish synchronicity as the low hanging fruit of the universe.
Now we could think that humans are some kind of special mind-magical-spirit-beasts and think that humans pulled group symmetry out of their spirit mind asses. But that's not how mind works. It's pretty much about your body in the world and that is just reality. Physical-phucking-reality! We do math AS we walk the earth. Numbers are at their base, walking in steps across the prairie. No prairie, no humans doing math. We can pat ourselves on the head all day over our abstract abilities but we still can't do square circles or five-dimensional triangles for shit.
(To be fair, I no longer believe their is such a thing as mind. It's another place where our brains have failed to endow us with the proper semantics to understand the physical.)