This one has really punched me in the face this morning. I'm sorry for dominating this thread but I'm either waking up this year or they are coming at me at a much more furious pace.
A co-worker with whom I was working on a project this morning just sent an email to myself and another mutual co-worker (who, to wit, has the same name as I - but she's a female). To paraphrase, she said that she recalled the two of us discussing the television program Breaking Bad. The sender said that she doesn't watch the show, but recently read this article about the moral philosophy behind the character Walter White's decision to let an antagonist live or die on the show. She goes on to note that the author of the article misses some important insights into Kant's categorical imperative while discussing deontology.
The thing is, I'd never seen Breaking Bad before last night. I watched the first three episodes, culminating in that exact apex of conflict that the article discusses, which I watched immediately before retiring for the night. The morality of that moment weighed heavily on me as I was falling asleep, immediately after waking up, on the trolley ride to work, etc. There's no way for this person to have known I had been turning this scene from 2008 over and over in my head all morning, yet she mistook me for someone else and wrote to me about that very specific scene of that specific episode.
She also noted that it was even maybe more coincidental for two people in the same office to be thinking about categorical imperative, which I acknowledge is also odd.
It's somehow still disappointing to me that all of my recent synchronicities seem to be media-induced. I'm waiting for the physical world to deal me a material coincidence.
