The Global Consciousness Project Weak Signals Strong Implications
The Global Consciousness Project Weak Signals, Strong Implications http: //noosphere. princeton. edu Roger Nelson rdnelson@princeton. edu Yellow spots are nodes in the network
The EGG Project (aka the Global Consciousness Project) Roger Nelson, Director International collaboration 75 Scientists, Artists, Friends, … Network of host sites world wide The tools: REG technology, Field application Make an EEG for the earth, an Electro. Gaia. Gram Identify engaging moments of global events The question: Can we capture a Glimmering of Global Consciousness?
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The technology is only now available Electronics, Computers, Networking REG/RNG devices run continuously Synchronized computers and software Internet transfer of data to central server Automatic archiving, public access Formal analyses and explorations Background, methods, poetic history
A Random Event Generator (REG or RNG) Mindsong REG Orion RNG
How it works: Here’s 1000 Trials from A physical random source Each trial is the sum of 200 bits
The binomial distribution of 1000 200 -bit trials, compared with Theoretical normal distribution expected
Composing the data as a Random Walk (a “drunkard’s walk”) by plotting the cumulative deviation from expectation
Here we see the combined data for a whole day, from 48 eggs
We can see better what’s happening by plotting cumulative deviations Correlation Tilts … Variance Spreads
For most of the formal predictions We specify a “Standard Analysis” Normalized signed deviation of mean, zi = (mi-m)/s Composite across eggs: Stouffer Zs = (Szi)/N 1/2 Composite Z is squared for c 2 distributed statistic Large cumulative sum of Zs 2 – 1 or c 2 – df Reflects inter-egg correlation, or Consistent large deviations, or both
Cumulative sum of c 2 - its expectation May show a trend if there is a common Influence or correlation among the eggs
When we make a composite across eggs, the cumulative deviation may show a trend
Since Earth Day is a repeating event, we can examine the previous year’s data too
And the year before that … from which we learn once again how much we don’t know
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