[MD] Expect a miracle , expect DQ

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com>:

> Hi Platt,
> You bet I've made that connection.
> 
> Blogged about it several (5 or 6 ?) years ago after meeting two
> Cambridge University professors in a bar (The Pickerell, no ordinary
> bar - adjacent to their college, Magdelene) discussing ZMM & Lila,
> whilst I was sitting within earshot, reading Lila. Turned out one of
> the two had previously also been a lecturer at Berkeley and had
> "taught" ZMM (though I never did work out what context.)
> 
> The real synchronicity, was not the conversational coincidence, but
> the fact that one of them suggested I should follow-up synchronicity
> (and Alexander) as related subjects. Apart from the idea that
> synchronicity "suggests" underlying invsible "causal" connections, the
> line leads to Jungian psychological typing, Malsow and evolutionary
> psychology - the latter of course being the source of those
> connections (provide we can overcome the knee-jerk prejudice against
> the whole evo-psych subject as a dirty word.)
> 
> (My blog is full of mentions synchonicities, people often poke fun at
> them, and there are references to synchronicity in my 2005 conference
> paper, and on my Pirsig-Pages.)
> Ian

Glad to see we both see synchronicities as related to DQ. At the risk of 
evoking an insult, can you explain their relationship to evolutionary psych?

Thanks.
Platt


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