Roles of causation and meaning for interpreting correlations |
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Authors: | Harald Atmanspacher |
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Affiliation: | 1. Collegium Helveticum, University and ETH Zürich;2. Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology, , Freiburg |
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Abstract: | The essays by Tougas and Willeford address, among other things, a number of ways to understand causation, which play crucial roles in the framework of thinking proposed by Pauli and Jung. The intention of my following reply is to say a few words about how these options are related to one another within our reconstruction of the Pauli‐Jung conjecture. In the tradition of the sciences, looking for causation has become a virtually innate reflex to interpret empirically observed correlations. The concept of synchronicity suggests looking for meaningful coincidences as an alternative, complementary interpretation, particularly appropriate for psychophysical correlations. |
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