Synchronicity from Synchronized Chaos

Abstract

The synchronization of loosely-coupled chaotic oscillators, a phenomenon investigated intensively for the last two decades, may realize the philosophical concept of "synchronicity"-the commonplace notion that related events mysteriously occur at the same time. When extended to continuous media and/or large discrete arrays, and when general (non-identical) correspondences are considered between states, intermittent synchronous relationships indeed become ubiquitous. Meaningful synchronicity follows naturally if meaningful events are identified with coherent structures, defined by internal synchronization between remote degrees of freedom; a condition that has been posited as necessary for synchronizability with an external system. The important case of synchronization between mind and matter is realized if mind is analogized to a computer model, synchronizing with a sporadically observed system, as in meteorological data assimilation. Evidence for the ubiquity of synchronization is reviewed along with recent proposals that: (1) synchronization of different models of the same objective process may be an expeditious route to improved computational modeling and may also describe the functioning of conscious brains; and (2) the nonlocality in quantum phenomena implied by Bell's theorem may be explained in a variety of deterministic (hidden variable) interpretations if the quantum world resides on a generalized synchronization "manifold".

Quantum Nonlocality from Higher-Derivative Gravity

“…It is thought that the fourth-order time derivatives in the classical hamiltonian constraint (8), away from the steady state, could describe a physical process of wormhole/wavefunction collapse on very short time scales. Unlike the situation with a macroscopic wormhole, the entry of a single particle would trigger collapse, preventing [19] atomized spacetime together, arguably, with non-standard metrics in state space [23] and an ontology given by nonlocally defined basis states that are not easily specified [24]. The view taken here is that an account of how the new order forms from the intrinsically required breakdown of the classical order, through gravitational instability of the populated vacuum at microscale, could ultimately yield a more complete, more detailed and more predictive version of quantum theory.…”

“…Substituting from (19) and 18, the condition for equivalence of V(r o ) to the de Barros et al quantum potential becomes:…”

Dynamically combining climate models to “supermodel” the tropical Pacific

“…Indeed, numerical weather prediction models are required to synchronize with reality, based on sparse observations, in the data assimilation process [ Abarbanel et al ., ; Duane et al ., ; Yang et al ., ]. In a supermodel as originally conceived [ Duane , ; van den Berge et al ., ], models effectively assimilate data from one another. That synchronization among different models should facilitate synchronization/attractor matching between the resulting supermodel and truth is an example of a common relationship between internal and external synchronization [ Duane , , ].…”

“…In a supermodel as originally conceived [ Duane , ; van den Berge et al ., ], models effectively assimilate data from one another. That synchronization among different models should facilitate synchronization/attractor matching between the resulting supermodel and truth is an example of a common relationship between internal and external synchronization [ Duane , , ].…”

Phase synchronization of baroclinic waves in a differentially heated rotating annulus experiment subject to periodic forcing with a variable duty cycle

“…This approach has been further developed most recently in the context of multi-model ensembles of climate simulations as a means of accounting for systematic errors between different models through mutual assimilation of model variables, forming the socalled "super-model" (van den Berge et al, 2011;Duane, 2015;and Shen et al, 2016).…”