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Quote by: orgaelin Why do things like this happen? |
I don't know. The phenomenon has certainly caught the eye of many fine thinkers (Jung, Koestler, etc.).
It's been suggested that in fact it doesn't happen. That is, it's simply blind chance, only when blind chance produces this coincidence you say "Hey, why did this happen?", something you don't say when the person you see in the supermarket is a total stranger.
On the other hand, what exactly is "blind chance"? This is something that Arthur Koestler has written fascinatingly about in his book "Janus: A summing up".