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Volume 6: Number 4: Article 1
Experiments in Remote Human/Machine Interaction
Brenda J. Dunne and Robert G. Jahn, Princeton Engineering Anomalies
Research, C-131 Engineering Quadrangle, Princeton University, Princeton,
NJ 08544-5263
Several extensive experimental studies of human/machine interactions
wherein the human operators and the target machines are separated by
distances of up to several thousand miles yield anomalous results comparable
in scale and character to those produced under conditions of physical
proximity. The output distributions of random binary events produced
by a variety of microelectronic random and pseudorandom generators,
as well as by a macroscopic random mechanical cascade, display small
but replicable and statistically significant mean shifts correlated
with the remote operators' pre-stated intentions, and feature cumulative
achievement patterns similar to those of the corresponding local experiments.
Individual operator effect sizes distribute normally, with the majority
of participants contributing to the overall effect. Patterns of specific
count populations are also similar to those found in the corresponding
local experiments. The insensitivity of the size and details of these
results to intervening distance and time adds credence to a large database
of precognitive remote perception experiments, and suggests that these
two forms of anomalies may draw from similar mechanisms of information
exchange between human consciousness and random physical processes.
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