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The Global Consciousness Project is in the process of developing data that suggests that there is a level of human emotion or thought that can collectively affect random number generators, and that it is at least somewhat predictive of large scale negative events, especially those that are human-generated, such as the attack on the US World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
If the data remains consistent, then it could be that scientists will be able to predict the future. More importantly, it will mean that each of us, on some level, knows at least enough about the future to sense when something big is about to happen. Individually, this awareness is apparently quite weak. Collectively, though, if scientists can find no conventional explanation, then it would seem that it is measurably strong.
Of course, it is also possible that something that is not directly related to the human mind may be involved, that is somehow sensitive to events transpiring in human life.
There is now a body of results that suggest that very public and intensely felt events affect the random number generators in measurable ways. Not only did they cease to record randomly before and during the 911 events, this effect has also been seen at other times. For example, when an estimated one billion people worldwide watched the funeral of Princess Diana on September 6, 1997, a consistent and measurable deviation was posted.
The project had its origins in the work of Professor Robert Jahn at Princeton in the 1970s. Dr. Jahn attempted to devise scientific means of studying such things as telepathy, telekinesis and ESP, using instruments that would provide him with quantifiable results over repeated trials. His experiments attempted to determine if human thought alone could affect the randomness of a random number generator.
His method was to ask passing strangers to concentrate on his random number generator. The results were bizarre, providing convincing evidence that the intervention of the mind could indeed affect a random number generator.
Dr. Roger Nelson, also at Princeton, found that people could affect a random number generator during meditation, and do at a convincing level of statistical significance.
It was out of this work that the idea of the Global Consciousness Project was born. At present, there are 65 random number generators around the world, all feeding their results into a computer at Princeton, which keeps a running tab of results, that automatically appear on the project’s website about ten minutes after they are derived.
A similar project at Goldsmith University in England has failed to generate results as consistent as those being reported by the GCP, and skeptics claim that they can, themselves, be explained by the fact that any group of random number generators will, from time to time, generate numbers in less random patterns.
However, Nelson and his colleagues respond that their results are consistently show a connection between less random numbers and dramatic events.
The Global Consciousness Project is in the process of developing data that suggests that there is a level of human emotion or thought that can collectively affect random number generators, and that it is at least somewhat predictive of large scale negative events, especially those that are human-generated, such as the attack on the US World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
If the data remains consistent, then it could be that scientists will be able to predict the future. More importantly, it will mean that each of us, on some level, knows at least enough about the future to sense when something big is about to happen. Individually, this awareness is apparently quite weak. Collectively, though, if scientists can find no conventional explanation, then it would seem that it is measurably strong.
Of course, it is also possible that something that is not directly related to the human mind may be involved, that is somehow sensitive to events transpiring in human life.
There is now a body of results that suggest that very public and intensely felt events affect the random number generators in measurable ways. Not only did they cease to record randomly before and during the 911 events, this effect has also been seen at other times. For example, when an estimated one billion people worldwide watched the funeral of Princess Diana on September 6, 1997, a consistent and measurable deviation was posted.
The project had its origins in the work of Professor Robert Jahn at Princeton in the 1970s. Dr. Jahn attempted to devise scientific means of studying such things as telepathy, telekinesis and ESP, using instruments that would provide him with quantifiable results over repeated trials. His experiments attempted to determine if human thought alone could affect the randomness of a random number generator.
His method was to ask passing strangers to concentrate on his random number generator. The results were bizarre, providing convincing evidence that the intervention of the mind could indeed affect a random number generator.
Dr. Roger Nelson, also at Princeton, found that people could affect a random number generator during meditation, and do at a convincing level of statistical significance.
It was out of this work that the idea of the Global Consciousness Project was born. At present, there are 65 random number generators around the world, all feeding their results into a computer at Princeton, which keeps a running tab of results, that automatically appear on the project’s website about ten minutes after they are derived.
A similar project at Goldsmith University in England has failed to generate results as consistent as those being reported by the GCP, and skeptics claim that they can, themselves, be explained by the fact that any group of random number generators will, from time to time, generate numbers in less random patterns.
However, Nelson and his colleagues respond that their results are consistently show a connection between less random numbers and dramatic events.