"The Global Consciousness Project, also called the EGG Project, is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration of scientists, engineers, artists and others. We collect data continuously from a global network of physical random number generators located in 65 host sites around the world. The archive contains more than 10 years of random data in parallel sequences of synchronized 200-bit trials every second.

Our purpose is to examine subtle correlations that may reflect the presence and activity of consciousness in the world. We predict structure in what should be random data, associated with major global events. When millions of us share intentions and emotions the GCP/EGG network shows small but meaningful differences from expectation.

This suggests that large scale group consciousness has effects in the physical world."



"The jagged red line shows the accumulating excess of the empirically normalized Z-scores relative to expectation for the complete dataset of rigorously defined events. The overall result is highly significant. The odds against chance are greater than a million to one. "


Source: http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

So they take PSUEDOrandom numbers, predict a congruence in the trend with world events, and conclude that our consciousness has something to do with it?

Can you describe the intricacies of the study? What is the Z-score? What are these global events? No? It doesn't surprise me.

This is psuedoscience, but you're way too hyped up on fringe research to realize it.

By the way, that's not even from princeton. I'm willing to bet these asshole can get in a shit ton of legal trouble for having an option for donations while using that URL.

This post was edited by 01100110 on Jul 26 2009 11:17am

Your fear of ostracization is evident. You condemn anything that even appears to be out of the mainstream.

I'm sure that this is an actual princeton website. I looked it up on princeton's search engine and it brought up the website. Also, on the princeton website, the search brought up a webpage about Roger Nelson, the director of the Global Consciousness project.

"Until his retirement in 2002, he served as the coordinator of experimental work in the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) lab, directed by Robert Jahn in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering/Applied Science, Princeton University. "

"Roger remains connected with PEAR, but gives most of his time to the Global Consciousness Project (GCP), which he directs. The GCP is an international, multi-laboratory collaboration (independent from the PEAR program) that maintains a network of random event generators (REGs) around the world that send data continuously over the Internet to a server in Princeton, NJ. The hypothesis to be tested is that there may be correlations of anomalous structure in the data with major global events. "

Source: http://www.princeton.edu/~rdnelson/

This post was edited by AEtheric on Jul 27 2009 09:03pm

I'm not afraid of being ostracised, lol.

The Princeton search doesn't link you to that site, but it does link you to a description of Roger Nelson. So ok, that does add some credibility to his work. It's just funny how you base your borderline insane beliefs on some unsubstantiated studies. What's even worse is that you can't even explain it yourself. You hear some buzz words, you bother to advertise it, and yet you don't even investigate its validity.

Can you or can you not explain how these random numbers are indicative of this "global conscious"? From all that you've posted(and assuming all you've read), it doesn't make any sense.

This post was edited by 01100110 on Jul 27 2009 09:52pm

It's a correlation between global events (such as broadcasted by global news) and anomalies in random number generators. The sheer number of random number generators, and events, in this experiment show that this effect is far from coincidence. It doesn't matter if someone cannot explain the results of an experiment. That's almost what always happens. People usually have to explain the results of experiments through testing hypotheses, unless the experiments yield a result that is consistent with a prediction of an previously verified theory.

Now I would investigate its validity, but sadly, I haven't taken a class in statistics or anything of the like to investigate it in detail. Even though I cannot fully investigate it, his experimental protocols, as well as the fact that he posts up his data for all to see, shows that he's at least honest, and therefore not intentionally misleading anyone, if he is at all.

Besides, who said I believe this? I was posting it up for people to see. Good thing that I expected a xenophobe like you to bitch about this thread.

This post was edited by AEtheric on Jul 29 2009 07:13pm