From: Chris 

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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