A prediction algorithm could unlock secrets of the universe

What is synchronicity? Is it a real thing or is it apparent? Can a system ever truly be synchronous? And if a system becomes synchronous, can it ever become asynchronous again?

Consider the synchronicity of dancing to music playing from a stereo system.

It takes a long time for the ear to trap sound waves from a stereo system. If the stereo is placed 2 meters away, it takes about 66 micro seconds (if speed of sound 300m/s).

The mechanics of converting the sound from waves into electric signals that can be interpreted by the brain also takes some time.

A little more time is taken for the brain to interpret the sound and tell the body to move in some kind of way depending on what it hears. There’s an algorithm in there that uses all your data together with the current sound to tell your body to move in some kind of way.

But the mechanics of the nerve system also takes some time transmitting the message to that part of the body where you need to move. That part of the body also takes sometime to translate this information into action.

So in short, by the time the body reacts to the sound, it’s already gone. Replaced with a new sound. So then why does dancing seem so synchronous. Can we ever be synchronous to any source of sound if we decide to dance to it? I asked a wise friend — Claire.

She casually said maybe the mind predicts what sound will be playing by the time the body gets to move and instead instructs the body for that. She said maybe the algorithm I was thinking about is actually a prediction algorithm. It takes the current notes of a song and all your life experiences as input. Everything you’ve seen, heard, felt and tasted. Everything you’ve learned through out your life time. It then comes up with a bunch of instructions for how the body should move such that by the time the body actually moves, it’s actually dancing to the right notes at that time.

So this algorithm predicts the future?

Newton’s third law formally states:

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction

The problem is, it takes some time for the object to comprehend the action and come up with an equal reaction to counter. By the time the object reacts some time would have passed. It wouldn’t be reacting to that action anymore, it would be wrongly reacting to a past action that’s probably already changed in magnitude and direction. And yet when we see the object react, it always seems to synchronously react to the current action.

Why?

Because the object has a prediction algorithm inside that uses the current action and everything the object knows about the universe to predict what will come next and thus react to that instead.

So every object in the universe is always constantly predicting the future?

If every object possesses this algorithm, and it’s the same for every object then why do we all dance differently?

Because we’re all working with different data sets? What if the data got wiped from a few objects on the earth, would the earth still be synchronous anymore?