Chaos and Synchronicity

“Does the flapping of a butterfly’s wings in the amazon, set off a tornado in Texas?”—Edward Lorenz

Dr. Lorenz, a meteorologist at MIT coined the phrase when he was researching how to make better weather predictions in the 1960’s.  He realized that ever so small changes in inputs had a radical and grandiose resultant difference in output. He dubbed this the butterfly effect, and set off a wave of research that continues to this day in chaos theory.

If we accept the axiom that Dr. Lorenz was correct, and that small changes in input cause radical differences in output, how then can we reconcile chaos to synchronicity when both are not only present but in effect at any given time as we go about our daily lives.

Take for example an online game, Lorenz’s theory states that in order to be a chaotic system it must first meet the threshold of sensitivity to initial conditions, so the point at which I moved from my position in the game to a random server position where other people were gathered, this random server selection in order to balance load qualifies as a sensitivity to an initial condition.

The second requirement is that there is topological mixing within the system, as I arrived at the place where the people gathered, others arrived and left as well, this mixing of individuals causes the system to be in constant search of balance.

The third requirement is density of periodic orbits, or does a player, as they flit from server to server looking for and finding friends, keep to the same server set, or are do they approach a server only to be moved as their friend whom they were following moves, thus never actually arriving at their intended location.

Having accepted the above axiom as having a modicum of truth is it then synchronicity that the people one needs most in their life at that time, would come from a random chaos meeting in the game?  If it were to happen that someone met and fell in love with someone in the game due to the chance server they ended up on due to the chaotic nature of the system, is that not an example of synchronicity in action?

If the receiver of the gift of love, or friendship, or just that right person to help their career, at just the right time, through events that have no causal relationship is what defines synchronicity.  One could argue that chaos is a tool of synchronicity, or that synchronicity is an element of chaos.  Could one exist without the other is a question that I have a feeling has a negative answer, but cannot prove, Lorenz attempted to prove mathematically that any system that met the criteria, could be considered chaotic, but at the same time have a synchronistic element wherein the universe uses the chaos to meet its own goals and objectives.