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Exploring Relationships Between Random Physical Events and Mass Human Attention: Asking for Whom the Bell Tolls
Dean Radin, Institute of Noetic Sciences, 101 San Antonio Road, Petaluma,
CA 94952
Exploratory study of the outputs of continuously operating truly random
number generators (RNG) located around the world indicated that the
largest daily change in variance in the year 2001 occurred on an unprecedented
day in United States history, September 11, 2001. Calculation of correlations
between all possible pairs of RNG outputs on a per-day basis showed
that the largest daily average correlation also took place on September
11. Comparison of daily RNG correlations for 250 days that made headline
news in 2001 according to a commercial news service vs. similar measures
for 115 noneventful days showed a larger average RNG correlation on
days with major news events (p 0.011). More generally, the correlation
between an objective metric of daily news vs. the daily average RNG
correlation was significantly positive (p 0.001). Potential environmental
artifacts were examined and found to be implausible explanations for
these results. One interpretation of these findings is that mind-matter
interaction effects previously observed only in focused laboratory studies
may be detectable outside the laboratory, potentially at a global scale.
Keywords: randomness, attention, mind
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