From: "Geo" 

that's EXACTLY what I was thinking.

Geo. 

"Chris"  wrote in message
news:4212184a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> This is a little too ethereal and nebulous for me... I'm more of a
> concrete thinker.  This article even was scrambling those few brain
> cells I have.  ugh.
>
> /Chris
>
>
> Rich Gauszka wrote:
> > I'm not sure if this is a giant practical joke by academia or valid
research
> >
> > http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
> >
> > The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is an international effort
involving
> > researchers from several institutions and countries, designed to explore
> > whether the construct of interconnected consciousness can be
scientifically
> > validated through objective measurement. The project builds on excellent
> > experiments conducted over the past 35 years at a number of
laboratories,
> > demonstrating that human consciousness interacts with random event
> > generators (REGs), apparently "causing" them to produce
non-random
patterns.
> > A description of the technical implementation is given under procedures.
> >
> > The experimental results clearly show that a broader examination of this
> > phenomenon is warranted. In recent work, prior to the Global
Consciousness
> > Project, an array of REG devices in Europe and the US showed non-random
> > activity during widely shared experiences of deeply engaging events. For
> > example, the funeral ceremonies for Princess Diana, and the
international
> > Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, created shared emotions and a
coherence of
> > consciousness that appeared to be correlated with structure in the
otherwise
> > random data. In the fully developed project, a world-spanning array of
> > labile REG detectors is connected to computers running software to
collect
> > data and send it to a central server via the Internet. This network is
> > designed to document and display any subtle, but direct effects of our
> > collective consciousness reacting to global events. The research
hypothesis
> > predicts the appearance of coherence and structure in the globally
> > distributed data collected during major events that engage the world
> > population.
> >
> >
> > Displays of the data take various forms, including some that show the
> > real-time activity as nearly as possible. Available now are regularly
> > updated tables of statistical information as well as simple and easily
> > understood graphical summaries of several kinds. For example, a graph
may
> > show the cumulative deviation of data sequences from their expected
values
> > as a composite across all the GCP sites around the world for the past
hour
> > or the past day or, say, for the engaging moment of a semi-final
"shootout"
> > in World Cup Soccer. One of the display modes is a movie, with music
based
> > on the data, represented within a global "map" showing regional
> > concentrations of large and small deviations using dynamic color coding.
> > Depending on contributions of skilled programming, more complex analyses
of
> > relationships among the sites will be developed, using, among others,
> > techniques developed for studying brain activity.
> >
> >

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