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Synchronicity and the problem of meaning in science

Roderick Main

Published Mar 1, 2014• 3 citations
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Related to the key areas of Pauli's and Jung's joint interests, the book covers overlapping issues from the perspectives of physics, philosophy, and psychology. Of primary significance are epistemological

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UBLICATION OF the Pauli-Jung correspondence (Pauli & Jung, 1992) leaves no doubt that Wolfgang Pauli devoted much thought to the concept of synchronicity, or the acausal synchronicity of meaningful events.This concept was introduced by C. G. Jung (Jung & Pauli, 1952/1973) in a book that also includes Pauli's contribution.Despite many discussions of synchronicity that Pauli had with scientists working at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA (where he spent his war years), the idea was somehow abandoned.Physicists were not ready to discuss acausal coincidences between events distant in time and space, mental experiences (dreams, intentions, thoughts), and meaning.Pauli himself was famous for creating trouble in laboratories he visited, and apparently he
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Abstract: The paper – similarly to our earlier publications since 1993 – is trying to ‘synchronize ’ early quantum physics, the Kalmanian representation theory, Jungian analytic psychology, and certain aesthetical categories. The number ‘137’, the so-called inverse Fine Structure Constant (IFSC), is placed at the centre of this heuristic and epistemological experiment, along with the scientific cooperation of Pauli and Jung. A new possibilistic twin concept of “controlling-observing equations ” is proposed for the reinterpretation of the FSC and other Number Archetypes on the basis of the Hermeneutic and symbolic languages found in the W. Pauli and C. G. Jung “Correspondence”. The first part of the paper deals in first line with the introduction of the possibilistic twin concept of FSC together with its interpretation according to the hermeneutical “tradition ” of the Pauli-Jung collaboration.