Re: OT: Introducing the Global Consciousness Project, Princeton, seeks members

"Jason H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "ErstWhile" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > "The mind's extended reach remains to be fully defined in scientific
terms,
> > but research on human consciousness suggests that we may have direct
> > communication links with each other, and that our intentions can have
> > effects in the world despite physical barriers and separations. We are
> > compelled by good evidence to accept correlations that we cannot yet
> > explain. It appears that consciousness may sometimes produce something
that
> > resembles, at least metaphorically, a nonlocal field of meaningful
> > information."
> >
> > I'm not affiliated with the Global Consciousness Project,
> > but I find its research results very intriguing (and interesting).
> >
> > For example, the project registered an anomaly (in Global Consciousness)
> > several hours before the terror attacks of 9.11.
> > http://noosphere.princeton.edu/terror.html
> >
> > Princeton's GCP now seeks more participants in its Global Consciousness
> > Research Project outside of the USA and Europe.
> > Countries/continents of preference are South America, Africa, Asia,
Middle
> > East, Australia, Antarctica, Oceania.
> >
> > To participate you will need to download and install the distributed
client,
> > as well ask Princeton to send a hardware random number generator to your
> > site.
> > More information and download from here: http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
> >
> > Your computer needs to be running 24/7, the OS being NT, Win2k (XP?) or
> > Linux/Unix
> > and a static IP adress is prefered.
> >
> > I guess the client to be economical with computing cycles.
> > All it does is to save generated "random" data from a lightly
radioactive
> > source,
> > compress the data and send them once a day to Princeton.
> >
> > The radioactivity is not more significant than that found in a household
> > smoke-detector, I hope.
> >
> > I would like to participate in this project myself, but my homecity
> > (Cologne) is already covered.
> >
> > Eric 1556WU
>
>
> That's fascinating Eric.  Perhaps this isn't so OT.
>
> (Attn readers, please have mercy on the following, it was crafted at 2
> a.m. and I'm was already in a sleep deficit when I started the day.)
>
>      I'm usually totally averse to parapsychology hoooey, but there is
> a ring of plausibility here (but isn't there always? however...), and
> if there truly is a correlation between human observers observing
> global events resulting in synchronicity of random generators
> dependent on quantum physics (and in a quantum universe this seems to
> make sense to this layperson), then perhaps at times when
> synchronicity events are observed but there is no large-scale
> human-consciousness-focusing event, perhaps it is because observers
> elsewhere in the universe are undergoing a consciousness-focusing
> event?  Maybe we could use their random event generators ("EGGS") as a
> sort of ETI 'observer' detector array? (they noticed that proximity of
> detectors to the 9-11 event caused those EGGS to be more synchronized)
> Imagine an array of EGGS (like what they are doing) all around the
> globe.  Perhaps you could work out the direction of the civilization
> by based on which were the most strongly synchronized?   Perhaps
> George Lucas isn't far from the truth (I sense a disturbance in the
> force!)  In the quantum universe, perhaps so many observers focusing
> on one event limited the possibilities of randomness, causing reality
> to 'collapse' into a more defined state (So if Shroedinger's cat is
> dead, and it is observed as being dead by billions of observers, not
> only are the cat's space/time coordinates and his state of 'dead'
> well-defined, but the states of all other quantum-affected random
> systems near the cat and the observers are also well-defined because
> the observers are hyper-observing the cat's state, leaving much less
> random-state options for reality over a span of time, (that doesn't
> even make sense to me at 2 a.m., but maybe it'll sound better
> tomorrow.)
>
> Maybe this isn't OT? (and time will tell whether or not this was
> because of other effects from cell phones, power surges, internet
> traffic etc.) But who knows, maybe this will develop into the first ET
> observer detector?
>
> Regards, Jason H.

As a sceptical layperson I can't even begin to understand how this works,
and I flagged the topic as OT, because I can't see any obvious method of
using this
phenomenon in the SETI project.

But Jason H. made a few good suggestions here.

I feel that the Princeton Project is above the usual suspicions of hoax and
blatant misrepresentations of statistics, and I feel that they did not make
likely
the allegation that they were able to detect the effects of 9.11. on their
array of detectors.

I like Jason H.'s description of the effect on the random event generators
as a
"collapse of entropy", caused by a concentration of the human mind.

Sadly the effects are usually very minute, but they can consistendly be
measured.
Possible ETI's may also have discovered this effect, since any lifeform
appears able to exert this influence,
as can be seen in the chicken experiment (down the page
http://m-tec.ag/dasneueste.asp?lang=eng ).

There mmay be a connection with Sir Roger Penroses work on Microtubules and
quantum effects
(Johnjoe McFadden's explores the connection between EM fields and the brain
in the CEMI Theory http://www.surrey.ac.uk/qe/pdfs/mcfadden_JCS2002b.pdf ).

I was lying in bed last night, and it struck me that George Lucas's vision
of "feeling a disturbance in the force" may not be just SF after all. Does
this graph show a collapse of entropy:
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/images/images2/shoupchicorr.gif ?

The GCP team is trying to find out what is happening, and is appplying in
the statistical analysis some similar methods as SETI. It has been discussed
to write a Fourrier algorythm for GCP, here are more projects and ways to
participate for programmers: http://noosphere.princeton.edu/programming.html

Maybe, when the EGG analysis becomes more sophisticated, they are going to
need a BOINC client, to do the calculations...

eric 1559wu

PS: Does anyone need a DTP operator and pressman? I'm looking for a job.
Will work for peanuts.