Unusual coincidences as design patterns pointing to an intelligent influence
November 18, 2024 Reading time: 10 minutes
Image: A cascade of coincidences related to JFK and Lincoln assassination
After publishing my book, "The Designed World of Information: Unveiling the Incredible Realm Beyond" [1], several of my colleagues asked me to briefly summarize why I believe that unusual coincidences might offer insights into understanding this world. Indeed, reading a book with over 460 pages is no easy task. So, I decided it would be useful to provide a short summary.
As I mentioned many times in the book, noticing coincidences in people's lives is not particularly unusual. It is simply the law of large numbers. Something is always happening somewhere, and given the sheer number of people, it is perfectly normal to observe coincidences. The effect of coincidences becomes intriguing when one focuses on a small sample of people chosen based on criteria unrelated to coincidences, but who are also connected by meaningful relationships. My book argues that one can build a completely unbiased statistical sample of a group of people, and a simple statistical inference applied to such a group can demonstrate how unlikely certain events are.
Coincidences as an argument for the existence of god
October 30, 2024 Reading time: 9 minutes
The key question of our lives is the question of the existence of God (or gods, in the case of polytheism). This question can be framed more generally: Are we merely complex, self-operating mechanisms created by random forces, atoms and molecules that are entirely indifferent to human beings?
There is considerable evidence suggesting that we are more than just robots with computational capabilities and that the Universe is not merely a materialistic "thing" created by a quantum fluctuation during the Big Bang, which happened to remain stable long enough to support self-organizing molecules and subsequent evolutionary processes.