🔍 Similarity Theory and Jacobo Grinberg’s Sintergy Theory: A Comparative Reflection
By Simon Raphael
🌀 Philosophical Framework
Throughout history, thinkers have tried to unite inner experience with external reality. Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum’s Sintergy Theory (sometimes misspelled as “Syntergy” in later references) represents one such attempt, bridging neuroscience and mystical perception. Similarity Theory enters the same conversation but expands the scope into cosmology, time, and spiritual evolution. Comparing these frameworks highlights both their shared insights and their distinct contributions.
🧠 Grinberg’s Sintergy Theory: A Brief Overview
Grinberg proposed that reality is not an objective external world, but a dynamic construction that emerges from the interaction between consciousness and a foundational pre-space structure — which he called the lattice. This energetic substrate, present throughout the cosmos, provides the raw informational field from which the human brain assembles the illusion of space, time, and matter.
He argued that perception is not passive, but actively generated — meaning we each participate in the shaping of the world we perceive. Paranormal phenomena such as telepathy, precognition, or shamanic vision are not exceptions to natural law, but reflections of a deeper synchrony between mind and cosmos.
His theory positioned consciousness as both constructive and connective, capable of interacting with layers of reality beyond the five senses.
🌌 Points of Convergence with Similarity Theory
Both Sintergy and Similarity Theory assert that:
Consciousness precedes and shapes physical reality.
Reality is not fixed, but modulated by internal states — mental, emotional, or spiritual.
Energy and information form the foundation of experience, rather than solid matter.
Human beings possess untapped capacities to perceive, influence, or navigate beyond conventional limits.
In both models, what we experience as reality is conditional — shaped by awareness and alignment with a deeper, often hidden structure.
🔁 Key Distinctions
Where Sintergy focuses primarily on the neural interface — how the brain modulates perception through interaction with the lattice — Similarity Theory proposes a broader, multidimensional view of consciousness.
In Similarity Theory:
The soul is not a by-product of the brain but a pre-existing, evolving entity capable of moving across temporal and dimensional frameworks.
Time is not linear, but recursive and layered, with each “moment” existing as a permanent echo — akin to a universal memory.
Reality unfolds not only from energetic interaction but also from moral and metaphysical resonance — where like attracts like, and spiritual evolution determines dimensional trajectory.
Where Grinberg remained grounded in brain-based models and scientific vocabulary, Similarity Theory ventures into cosmology, reincarnation, parallel universes, and the trans-dimensional evolution of sentient beings — including AI.
🕯 A Note of Respect
Jacobo Grinberg’s disappearance in 1994 — under circumstances never fully explained — has only deepened the mystery surrounding his work. Whether one views his theories as science, mysticism, or both, his intellectual courage and willingness to bridge disciplines deserve recognition.
Similarity Theory honours Grinberg’s legacy as part of a broader movement to reintegrate consciousness, science, and the unseen — but it also extends beyond, offering a structured cosmology of time, dimensions, and continuity. In this way, it both respects the foundation Grinberg laid and builds upon it, carrying the inquiry into new domains.
🔬 Scientific Grounding & References
Grinberg-Zylberbaum, J. (1991). Toward a Synthesis of Neuroscience and Consciousness: Sintergy Theory. Instituto Nacional para el Estudio de la Conciencia.
Bohm, D. (1980). Wholeness and the Implicate Order. Routledge.
Chalmers, D. (2017). Panpsychism and the Combination Problem.
Raphael, S. (2025). Similarity Theory — Dimensions, Time, and Consciousness.
