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Modern physics, having advanced into another world beyond conceivability, cannot dispense with the concept of a space-time continuum. Insofar as psychology penetrates into the unconscious, it probably has no alternative but to acknowledge the __ndistinctness_ or the impossibility of distinguishing between time and space, as well as their psychic relativity. The world of classical physics has not ceased to exist, and by the same token, the world of consciousness has not lost its validity against the unconscious_ __ausality_ is a psychologem (and originally a magic virtus) that formulates the connection between events and illustrates them as cause and effect. Another (incommensurable) approach that does the same thing in a different way is synchronicity. Both are identical in the higher sense of the term __onnection_ or __ttachment._ But on the empirical and practical level (i.e., in the real world), they are incommensurable and antithetical, like space and time.[_]I would now like to propose that instead of __ausality_ we have _(relatively) constant connection through effect,_ and instead of synchronicity we have (relatively) constant connection through contingency, equivalence, or __eaning.
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Modern physics, having advanced into another world beyond conceivability, cannot dispense with the concept of a space-time continuum. Insofar as psychology penetrates into the unconscious, it probably has no alternative but to acknowledge the __ndistinctness_ or the impossibility of distinguishing between time and space, as well as their psychic relativity. The world of classical physics has not ceased to exist, and by the same token, the world of consciousness has not lost its validity against the unconscious_ __ausality_ is a psychologem (and originally a magic virtus) that formulates the connection between events and illustrates them as cause and effect. Another (incommensurable) approach that does the same thing in a different way is synchronicity. Both are identical in the higher sense of the term __onnection_ or __ttachment._ But on the empirical and practical level (i.e., in the real world), they are incommensurable and antithetical, like space and time.[_]I would now like to propose that instead of __ausality_ we have _(relatively) constant connection through effect,_ and instead of synchronicity we have (relatively) constant connection through contingency, equivalence, or __eaning.

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