The Global Consciousness Project Weak Signals, Strong Implications Roger Nelson 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?

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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 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, z i = (m i -  )/  Composite across eggs: Stouffer Z s = (  z i )/N 1/2 Composite Z is squared for  2 distributed statistic Large cumulative sum of Z s 2 – 1 or  2 – df Reflects inter-egg correlation, or Consistent large deviations, or both

Cumulative sum of    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