The Global Consciousness Project

[Proteus_MST]

Re: The Global Consciousness Project

Originally posted by Sn00py
A tiny machine that pumps out 1's and 0's randomly; you would expect to get an even number of 1's and 0's, but this machine seems to break that law when a major event happens in the world.

I feel a great disturbance in the force

[Combat Ingrid]

Ehm, Boris... Read the article again and try to use your brain this time. Then you may actually understand why they were surprised by the results

[Whoha]

Re: The Global Consciousness Project

Originally posted by Sn00py
A tiny machine that pumps out 1's and 0's randomly; you would expect to get an even number of 1's and 0's, but this machine seems to break that law when a major event happens in the world.

So read this: http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=126649#121

the human brain makes patterns where there are none.
00000000000000000000000000000000 is just as random as 101011111111111111000010101011101011.

[Zoid]

As I understand it, the machine might tell us that something will happen, but not exactly what. Blind predictions... Great work guys!

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Combat Ingrid
UR: that's hardly surprising as he made those experiments 30 years ago.

I dunno. You could find a lot of Darwin's stuff, Einstein's stuff, the Miller-Urey experiment, and the Michaelson-Morley experiement on the Web.

So far, there's nothing on this Dr John Hartwell except this one article. It smells rotten.

[FrostyBoy]

Maybe this would be more interesting:

http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

[Jaguar]

Obviously the writers of the article have a vested interest in making the project look credible. Because if it's not a credible project, then they're just writing an article about crackpots.

[Urban Ranger]

FWIW, this looks a lot like the original "bible code" research conducted in Israel. Namely, they both tried to find out patterns to fit events that have already happened, and no controls were (are) used.

[mrmitchell]

Exactly the point I was going to make. They know they are about to be shown something, so why wouldn't the brain have an increase in activity over such anticipation? What a ridiculous "experiment," if indeed the claim is even true (many claims of such things are just outright falsehoods, esp. ones that are claimed to have been made so long ago).

Presumably they would be smart enough to at least make the pictures flash at random intervals so you can't anticipate as well.

[Combat Ingrid]

Presumably they would be smart enough to at least mix these pictures randomly with non-provocative pictures so you can't anticipate what kind of picture that will be next

[DRoseDARs]

Presumably they would be smart enough to at least "randomize" the pictures enough that images of the Virgin Mary start to appear...