Proof of Synchronicity

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Pure mathematics is a closed logical system.Its truths aren't falsifiable, so by themselves have no explanatory force. Mathematical statements (such as "1+1=2") are necessarily true for all time and all universes so, ipso facto, they can't - by themselves - tell us anything about any particular universe. Yet that is just what physics asks them to do.

Demostrations of mathmatical mastery amounts to an extremely long winded appeal to authority, when attempting to explain quantum behavior. Being logically unable to prove all truths in a particular set (even though you know they are true) is very different from being able to falsify them. read: Karl Popper; "The Logic of Scientific Discovery ". The great contribution here is the recognition that 'scientific method' can prove the particular, and while that cannot prove the general, it can eliminate the false. Sir Karl Popper Web See also; "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by Thomas S. Kuhn

The interaction is the observation. because of this we know that there are two properties; the electron and the photon because at their point of intersection ( observation and recording ) they are changed. They are changed in very specific ways which produce very specific behaviors. Though we may not be able to predict what will happen next, the change has been observed and recorded by their interaction. The nature of the change does give us information about it's original state and abilities.

Proof of Synchronicity

Wave interference pattern.

Cage, McLuhan and the Repertoire of Synchronicity

In 1988 I met a woman and gave her a copy of John Cage's Notations. We went our separate ways, and lost touch. 4 years later I returned to the place where we met. Cage was to be there, but never appeared.
 
After several weeks, I returned home. Fifteen minutes after arriving from the airport, the phone rang. It was the woman. She had just met Cage, and recalled my gift of the book. Cage died later that night, shortly after his last concert. This story typifies my personal history with synchronicity, a phenomenon noticeably amplified by my ongoing research into distributive performance, which, most recently, involved staging three Cage works on a 4-point, 6,000-kilometer broadband network with musicians and dancers. 

Our point of investigation was Cage's own proposition that spatial 
distribution reinforces chance operations. Some startling and 
delightful emergent properties became evident, highly reminiscent of Jung's experiments with synchronistic phenomenon. "Everything at once, no matter when/where we are?" This sensation resonated beyond the performance. Example: shortly thereafter, experiencing a kind of para-physical after effect, I randomly selected an excerpt from the dance film documentation, and inserted new music beneath it. I did not edit/screen the film, or audition the music; my only intervention was to arbitrarily slo-mo the video. 

The resulting juxtaposition of movement and music was so specific 
that, later, several uninformed viewers were convinced it was an 
elaborate choreography. As I screened it, the unfolding evidence of my "agency" was so incredible that I was convinced the unseen ending to come would be perfectly astonishing (the film clip and music were exactly the same length, to the split second!). Trembling, perspiring, I finally witnessed the proof. Do synchronicity, consciousness, and art interlace with greater elegance, by virtue of, and enhanced by near-instantaneous distributive performance? I am proposing an artist's statement about this experiential research, informed by references to Cage, Jung, Mcluhan, and D.T. Suzuki.

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