Mark Gagnon

ordinary human experience.

Though of course, different traditions approach like how and who and why very differently when it comes to miracles.

Now let's talk about coincidence.

This is basically the opposite kind of framework.

It's when two or more events occur in a way that seems remarkable, but in reality has no meaningful connection.

So the word literally comes from Latin, coincidir, or to fall together, basically.

So coincidences are by definition, meaningless.

That's what you get when probability does its thing.

You know, humans just happen to notice it.

You think of your friend and then they call you, dream about a car accident, the next day you see one.

A coincidence is just the scientific community's way of saying like, cool, that's an interesting thing, you know, but it doesn't mean anything, right?

A coincidence is like, yeah,

You're thinking of someone and then they call you.

It's like, well, duh.

People call you all the time.

How many people did you think about that didn't call you?

And how often is this person calling you and you think of them without you thinking of them?

And then you have synchronicity.

And this basically sits kind of in the middle between these.

And that's actually what makes it really interesting.