A GLOBAL NETWORK of random sources shows deviations linked with events that affect millions of peopl

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  The Global Consciousness Project
A GLOBAL NETWORK of random sources shows
deviations linked with events that affect
millions of people. The results challenge common
ideas about the world, but independent analyses
confirm the unexpected behavior, and also
indicate that it cannot be attributed to ordinary
physical forces or electromagnetic fields. The
Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is an
international collaboration created in 1998 to
study the subtle reach of human consciousness in
the physical world. We maintain a network of
random event generators (REGs) with nodes in more
than 50 locations, from Alaska to Fiji, on all
continents, and in nearly every time zone. The
world map on the right has a bright spot for each
of the host sites.
   GATHERING DATA   Every second, each REG
produces    a "trial" that is the sum of 200
bits, essentially equivalent    to flipping 200
coins and counting the heads.    The figures
below show plots of the raw data    1) The
per-second trial values, with expected mean of
100    2) All data for 48 eggs during a full
day, 15-min averages    3) A cumulative
deviation trace of the data for each egg
48 REGs, 15-min blocks, Raw
48 REGs, 15-min blocks, Cumulative

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Measuring Outcomes
THE BOTTOM LINE   The table on the right shows a
sampling of results from the database of 122
events for which formal predictions were made
over the past four years. The overall odds are
about one in a million that we are seeing just
chance fluctuations. This figure shows the
history of results over four years
The trend (red line) should be horizontal for
random data, but the positive slope indicates
that something has affected the EGG network. The
effect is small but reliable, so the outcome is
highly significant. We don't yet know how to
explain the subtle correlations between events of
importance to humans and the GCP data, but they
are quite clear. The results are evidence that
the physical world and our mental world of
information and meaning are linked in ways that
we don't yet understand.
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And again for last year. The pattern is
replicated for the third time.
Global Attention Sharing New Years Eve All
over the world, people celebrate the change to a
New Year. Since 1998, we have recorded data from
a network of physical random event generators
(called eggs). Here we look at what happens at
midnight around the world. The scientific
prediction is that there will be a pattern of
increased correlation among the eggs. We test for
trends away from the expected random walk. We
have learned to expect reductions in the
variation across the eggs. The figures on this
page almost speak for themselves. They are
pictures of our engagement with each other.
We predicted the same pattern for the following
year.
Then, for the infamous Y2K transition, we looked
at a measure of the variability among the eggs
and predicted it would decrease as we all focused
on midnight.
Variance Drop, Midnight, 1999-2000
In the first year, 1998-1999, we looked for a
change in the average deviation, and compared
Maxi- and Mini-celebration time zones.
More at http//noosphere.princeton.edu
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Global Emotion Transfixed by
Tragedy On September 11 2001, early in the
morning, a network of physical random event
generators (called eggs) took on a striking
trend. By 845 the non-random behavior was
unmistakable. It peaked at about 1030 with odds
against chance of a thousand to one. See the
red trace below. Other measures also deviated
from expectation on that day, creating an
unmistakable pattern where there should be none.
The eggs became linked across distance and time
in some subtle way that we do not yet know how to
explain. This is not a physical or
electromagnetic effect. Its not due to
extraordinary mobile phone use, or saturation
TV. It appears to be related to our profound
engagement.
On 9/11 the data showed extraordinary moments
On 9/11 the data contained unique sequential
structure
On 9/11 deviations began that persisted for 2 days
The jagged red line shows three days of a measure
(squared cumulative deviation of variance) that
represents the composite randomness of 37
eggs. On September 11, the data show clear
structure where there should be none.
More at http//noosphere.princeton.edu
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