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Consciousness and Psi Can Consciousness be Real?

Consciousness and Psi Can Consciousness be Real?. A Presentation for Utrecht ll: Charting the Future of Parapsychology October 2008, Utrecht, The Netherlands Roger Nelson Director, Global Consciousness Project http://noosphere.princeton.edu.

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Consciousness and Psi Can Consciousness be Real?

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  1. Consciousness and PsiCan Consciousness be Real? A Presentation for Utrecht ll: Charting the Future of Parapsychology October 2008, Utrecht, The Netherlands Roger Nelson Director, Global Consciousness Project http://noosphere.princeton.edu

  2. F. W. H. Myers believed that a theory of consciousness must derive from, and be able to accommodate … the full range of human experience, including not only normal psychological phenomena but also … what Myers called "supernormal" phenomena. -- E. Kelly and C. Alvarado, 2005 An Early Understanding

  3. Joseph Banks Rhine and his colleagues summarized the developing scientific research field in the book Extra-Sensory Perception After Sixty Years Experimental Science

  4. Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Director Robert Jahn, Lab Manager Brenda Dunne Nearly three decades of supported research Tapping the resources of a great university Consciousness and Psi from a personal perspective Technology, Psychology, Aesthetics

  5. Enjoy yourself or try to learn, You will annoy someone. And if you don’t, You will annoy someone. -- Idries Shah, The Mullah Nasrudin

  6. At PEAR we asked ordinary people To change the behaviour of machines Random Drumbeat Dual Thermistor Benchmark Electronic REG/RNG Chaotic Fountain Linear Pendulum We found Significant Effects

  7. Random Event Generator (REG)Intention to change machine behaviour High and Low both depart from expectation HI BL LO

  8. Looking at PK in experiments with Many different physical random sources, We confirmed that conscious intent is effective Linear Pendulum

  9. How about PK in a macroscopic system? 2m wide 3m tall “Pinball” machine, 19mm balls But Left vs Right is just a decision = information Random Mechanical Cascade

  10. Psi in a natural experiment – Princeton reunions Group consciousness is unconscious or subconscious, but it is evidently real 10,000 people really want good weather Control: no focus, no coherent group It may be …

  11. Second major experimental focus Remote Perception (RV) performance Suggests consciousness is not localized Highly significant composite score overall, e.g. p = 10-8 Distance Time

  12. We identified many pieces of the puzzle Attitude, acceptance, expectation, choice Mental, not physical parameters An example: Time invested in the psi task Is arguably the “right” metric for comparisons Time-based ES is similar across labs RV and Ganzfeld2-3 times larger than PK Time normalized yield is comparable For all PEAR PK experiments

  13. Moving out of the lab FieldREG Experiments: Deep engagement Coherent group consciousness and emotion Expectation for the data is a level random walk Numinous event: Shamanic Healing ritual for Devils Tower Group chanting: Sacred space Great Pyramid, inner chambers

  14. Expansion to global dimensionColleagues in Europe and the US Collected 12 independent data streams Expectation is level trend

  15. A world-spanning network of REGs (EGGs)‏ Google Map of nodes http://noosphere.princeton.edu/egghosts/

  16. Continuous random Data since 1998 An example The World Trade Center September 11 2001 What do we see In the data? Tamara Beckwith

  17. September 11 2001 Destruction of the World Trade TowersIncreased network variance for 50 hours Twodays

  18. More positive: Synchronized meditation Half a million people around the world Significant reduction of network variance

  19. New Years Eve 1999-2008 (10 years, 37 time zones) Signal averaged device variance decreases

  20. Concatenate 10 years of formal replications 264 rigorously defined global eventsOdds: 20 million to 1 against chance But it is a small effect: The average Z-score is about 0.35

  21. The GCP is now in a second phase Deeper analysis finds structure Six independent measures and correlations         Structure Sigma P-value             S1 3.67 0.0001             S2 2.45 0.007        Distance[S1] 1.49 0.07        Distance[S2] 2.48 0.006     Correlation[S1 S2] 1.95 0.02 Combined Results Phase 2 3.90 0.00005 Combined Results Phases 1&2 5.35 5x10-8 Calculations by Peter Bancel; Reduced dataset amenable to all analyses

  22. Deeper analysis – Parametric elements – Modeling is next Distance: Closer pairs = Stronger correlations S1:zizj S2:zi2zj2

  23. Explorations: What matters, what doesn’t Looking at categories: Emotions

  24. Reciprocal linkage to human consciousness ~650 Major earthquakes, Richter 6 or more Only those on land show a pattern in GCP data The realty of consciousness Is clearly implied 92 Quakes on Land +/- 30 hours 553 Controls Ocean Quakes +/- 30 hours

  25. 1. Physical and statistical theories are incomplete2. Individual, group, global consciousness are real3. Consciousness is information, not energy 4. Models of the world must include consciousness5. Mind matters – it can directly change the world Decades of Psi Research Contributions largely unrecognized (Until now … But that will change)

  26. What's Next? The Future of Parapsychology1. Replicate experiments with strong implications2. Dig deeper with clear, sophisticated analysis3. Develop richer predictive theoretical models4. Create applications for science education5. Write articles that focus on Myers’ point6. Engage our mainstream colleagues7. Foster young researchers GCP 2008

  27. Is this the future of Parapsychology? Mainstream guys Psi research I think not ...

  28. GCP/EGG ProjectThe people who make it go International collaboration of 100 Scientists, Artists, Friends, … Peter Bancel, Paris, professional analysis, collaboration William Treurniet, Canada, egganalysis programming John Walker, Switzerland, programming, general support Richard & Connie Adams, USA, general support Paul Bethke, USA, windows programming, network Dick Bierman, Netherlands, design and realtime display Dean Radin, USA, design and independent analysis Brad Anderson, USA, widget programming Taylor Jackson, Canada, realtime display maintenance Greg & Lefty Nelson, USA, program architecture, general support Fernando Rodríguez, Spain, egghosts google map York Dobyns and PEAR, general support, server hosting Leane Roffey, USA, music, outreach, general support Jaroen Ruuward, Netherlands, realtime programming Dick Shoup, USA, independent analysis Nishith Singh, India, realtime programming Mahadeva Srinivasan, India, general support … And all the EGG hosts around the world

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