Re: ABMs and Psychology

Posted by Marcus G. Daniels on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Re-comm-was-Re-FW-Re-Emergence-Seminar-BritishEmergence-tp3654051p3695553.html

Steve Smith wrote:
> I'm enough of a "wishful thinker" to not discount possible
> extra-causal connections, but I also believe that such phenomena as
> our own coveted "emergence" and the ever-popular "parallel evolution"
> (which are based in causality) explain *most* and could explain *all*
> of the phenomena described by Synchronicity and *not* dismissable
> simply as Confirmation Bias
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias>.
Did Pauli mean parallel evolution (grouping by meaning, where meaning is
not subjective), or did he actually buy into the idea of the collective
unconscious influencing how things unfold in nature?

Marcus



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