title: Roles of causation and meaning for interpreting correlations.
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.
authors.affiliation: Collegium Helveticum, University and ETH Zürich.|Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology, Freiburg.
authors.forename: Harald
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Atmanspacher
mesh_terms: D015984:Causality; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D008678:Metaphysics