A GLOBAL NETWORK of electronic devices produces continuous random data sequences. Subtle patterns in the data are linked with events that cause shared thoughts and emotions in millions of people. The results challenge common ideas about the world, but independent analyses confirm the unexpected patterns, and also indicate that they cannot be attributed to ordinary physical forces or electromagnetic fields. The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is an international collaboration created in 1998 to study the subtle reach of human consciousness in the physical world. We maintain a network of random event generators (REGs) with nodes in more than 50 locations, from Alaska to Fiji, on all continents, and in nearly every time zone. The world map on the right has a bright spot for each of the host sites. |
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GATHERING DATA Every second, each REG produces a "trial" that is the sum of 200 bits, essentially equivalent to flipping 200 coins and counting the heads. |
VISUALIZING DATA The figures below show plots of the raw data and various stages of processing that may allow us to see structure or deviations from expectation.
1) The per-second trial values, with expected mean of 100. Data from one
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PLOTTING RESULTS The continuous datastreams from these instruments tend to depart from expectation when major "Global Events" stimulate a wide-spread coherence of thoughts and emotions. Three samples below show the composite or average of the cumulative deviation traces from data collected during such events. Random data generally wanders around the horizontal line at zero, while a consistent deviation resulting in a sloping trend indicates that something changed the output of our instruments.
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