Re synchronicity:

TIPSters will have noticed that, out of the several hundreds of
possibilities, the first three respondees on this topic were all of the
same name.

I expect Jung would have had an explanation of why this should be the case
when the topic just happens to be "synchronicity". Or rather, I suspect he
might have said that this was most likely a "meaningful" event. 

Dredging up my recollection of basic probability theory, on the assumption
there are 50 active TIPSters of whom 5 are called Michael, I make the
probability of this occurring 0.001. 

Incidentally, when Jung decided a coincidence of events was an example of
synchronicity, is there any way to refute his contention? Or is it just a
matter of personal preference: I rather like that explanation, so I'll
believe it to be so.

Allen Esterson
Former lecturer, Science Department
Southwark College, London
http://www.esterson.org

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