Why this matters
Without this distinction, every observation is vulnerable to projection. With this distinction, field dynamics become stable, transferable, and testable.
This makes the I·V·O model usable in both practice and research.
The question that must be asked
Every theory about synchronicity and field dynamics must answer one question:
How do you distinguish a "real" field signal from confirmation bias?
This is not a critique of the model — it is the litmus test. Without a clear answer, every signal remains subjective. With a clear answer, it becomes observable.
1. Field signals are pre-verbal
Confirmation bias is interpretation. It is a mental process that only arises after you have perceived something. You see something, you think about it, and you fit it into your existing framework.
A field signal is something else. It is micro-physical:
- A change in breath
- A shift in timing
- A break in rhythm
- A micro-tension in the body
- Non-local synchronicity
- Pattern repetition without cause
- Phase shift in a space or conversation
In the I·V·O structure:
- Micro-tension → signal from O (the field responds)
- Phase break → signal from V (direction shifts)
- Breath timing → coupling between I and O (intention touches the field)
These are not thoughts. These are observations — registrations of the system before the brain creates a story about it.
2. Field signals are repeatable
Confirmation bias varies per person. Your bias is not my bias. What you "see" in a pattern is colored by your history, expectations, and desires.
Field signals work differently.
You can recognize them in everyone, always.
The signals in this archive are not unique to one observer. They are universally recognizable to anyone who learns to look without interpreting. Rhythm, timing, phase shift, synchronicity — these phenomena are observable, not subjective.
3. Field signals arise before behavior
This is the crucial distinction.
Confirmation bias arises after a thought. You have a belief, and you look for evidence that confirms that belief. The thought comes first, the "confirmation" follows.
A field signal works in reverse.
The signal appears earlier than the thought.
Your body responds. Your breath changes. The timing fits. And only then — sometimes seconds, sometimes minutes later — do you understand what happened. The signal precedes the interpretation.
4. Field signals work between systems
Confirmation bias works within one brain. It is an internal process of filtering and selecting.
Field signals are dynamic and relational.
They arise between people. Between systems. They are a form of partial entanglement — a resonance that is not limited to one observer.
When two people feel the same shift at the same time, when a message arrives at the exact moment of an internal decision, when a room changes atmosphere without anyone saying anything — that is not individual bias.
That is field dynamics.
Summary: the distinction
| Field signal | Confirmation bias |
|---|---|
| Pre-verbal | Post-thought |
| Micro-physical (breath, timing, rhythm) | Mental interpretation |
| Repeatable in everyone | Varies per person |
| Arises before behavior | Arises after thought |
| Works between systems | Works within one brain |
An example from practice
Two people sit at a table. Nothing is said yet.
One of them subtly slows their breathing.
The other develops micro-tension around the jaw.
Only 20 seconds later does the behavior appear that becomes visible as "friction".
The field signal was there first.
The behavior is the echo.
Implication for the model
This distinction makes field signals observable and — in principle — measurable.
Not by reducing them to data, but by recognizing them for what they are: phenomena that fall outside the domain of interpretation.
A field signal does not ask for belief. It asks for observation.
Those who learn to look without interpreting will see the field move.