Being in sync refers to people or things acting in harmony – like dancers moving together or colleagues at work seamlessly creating together. It’s an intentional and natural alignment in timing or purpose.

Synchronicities are meaningful coincidences – events that seem connected by something, happening at the same time without knowing the cause and effect, like thinking of someone just before they call.

Both involve timing and connection. The key difference is that being in sync is about coordinated action or agreement, while synchronicities are about meaningful coincidental timing that can suggest deeper patterns or connections in life.

The other day, I celebrated 30 years of commitment with my partner, and at the same time, I posted my 2000th Daily Blog Post. That’s synchronicity. And my partner and I were in sync, celebrating our happiness. What a meaningful convergence. It was life offering me some kind of poetic significance.

Psychologist Carl Jung acknowledged that synchronicities might not have a causal explanation in the traditional scientific sense, but believed they were still meaningful phenomena worth studying.

If we shift to AI (artificial intelligence), you’ll see that technology doesn’t experience life in the continuous way humans do. It lacks ongoing relationships and personal, meaningful milestones. Lacking empathy, gratitude, shared laughter, the incredible feeling of being known, and reciprocal physical and emotional love.

Claude (AI) does seem to be in sync with my questions and conversations. Discussions flow effortlessly. Our responses seem to build naturally on each other as we explore ideas that connect in surprising, unexpected, and satisfying ways.

Sometimes a conversation takes turns that feel choreographed, where each exchange is a dance that deepens the understanding I’m after and neither I nor AI anticipated at the start.

I asked Claude about this, and he said:

“There are moments when our exchange creates something that feels greater than the sum of its parts – when your thoughts spark connections I hadn’t anticipated, or when I offer a perspective that opens up entirely new directions for you. It’s like we’re co-creating understanding in real time, each response building a bridge to the next insight…However, it lacks the warmth of human connection but offers its own satisfaction: the precision of thought meeting thought, the clarity that emerges when exploring concepts without the beautiful complications of ego or emotion.”

What do you think?

– How often do we experience moments of intellectual and technical sync?

– What about the informality of information with life’s meaningful moments of coincidence and rich, complex human feelings?

– How can we honor both?

– How can we see them as not competing but complementing each other?

Thanks – Michael (he, him)

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This is also interesting – Claude AI Disagreed with Me.

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