Week 2, Impressions of Links

Synchronicity seems like a new word for and old phenomena. Although we might be unconscious of our deep connection with everything around us, we are still affecting everything and causing things to happen. We might refer to the expression in our lives of this deep connection as coincidences, chance, luck, or syncronicity. Metaphysics and different branches of spirituality have been talking about this for centuries. 

What really boggles my mind is to think of all that stuff that is happening right now between everything that exists that we will never be aware of. Right now, the spin of an electron within my body might have affected the spin of an electron within your body and we might never know of it. Or we might "randomly" bump into each other at the supermarket. It's intense to think that connections like these are happening every second.

I think it is a good thing that such words are becoming part of the scientific jargon because it introduces concepts that were thought of as metaphysical and more spiritual rather than concrete and real. By allowing new language to enter into the scientific discussion, science as a whole begins to become more holisitic and intergrative.