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
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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)/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