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 ElectroGaiaGram Identify engaging moments of global events The question: Can we capture a Glimmering of Global Consciousness? Homepage http://noosphere.princeton.edu Berger: Web Design Magic Buttons Status Day Sum Results Extract Primary Links Menu at Bottom 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)/N1/2 Composite Z is squared for c2 distributed statistic Large cumulative sum of Zs2 – 1 or c2 – df Reflects inter-egg correlation, or Consistent large deviations, or both Cumulative sum of c2 - 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