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Coherent Consciousness and Reduced Randomness: Correlations on September 11, 2001
Roger D. Nelson, Director, Global Consciousness Project, Princeton,
NJ
The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is an international collaboration
of researchers studying interactions of consciousness with the environment.
The GCP maintains a network of random event generators (REGs) located
in over 40 host sites around the world. These devices generate random
data continuously and send it for archiving to a dedicated server in
Princeton, New Jersey. The data are analyzed to determine whether the
fundamentally unpredictable array of values contains periods of detectable
nonrandom structure that may be correlated with global events. In this
paper we examine the data from September 11, 2001, for evidence of an
anomalous interaction driving the REGs to non-random behavior. Two formal
analyses were made, testing hypotheses based on standardized procedures
for making predictions and performing a statistical evaluation. A number
of post hoc and exploratory studies, including work by five independent
analysts, provide additional perspective and examine the context of
several days before and after the major events. The results show that
a substantial increase in structure was correlated with the most intense
and widely shared periods of emotional reactions to the events. Further
analysis indicates that the non-random behavior cannot be attributed
to ordinary sources such as electrical disturbances or high levels of
mobile phone use. The evidence suggests that the anomalous structure
is somehow related to the unusually coherent focus of human attention
on these extraordinary events.
Keywords: consciousness, anomalous interactions, random events, random
numbers, September 11, 2001, mind-matter interaction
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