1. The Global Consciousness Project Weak Signals, Strong Implications http://noosphere.princeton.edu Roger Nelson rdnelson@princeton.edu Yellow spots are nodes in the network

2. 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?

3. Homepage Status Day Sum Results Extract Magic Buttons Primary Links Menu at Bottom http://noosphere.princeton.edu Berger: Web Design

4. 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

5. A Random Event Generator (REG or RNG) Mindsong REG Orion RNG

6. How it works: Here’s 1000 Trials from A physical random source Each trial is the sum of 200 bits

7. The binomial distribution of 1000 200-bit trials, compared with Theoretical normal distribution expected

8. Composing the data as a Random Walk (a “drunkard’s walk”) by plotting the cumulative deviation from expectation

9. Here we see the combined data for a whole day, from 48 eggs

10. We can see better what’s happening by plotting cumulative deviations Correlation Tilts … Variance Spreads

11. 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

12. Cumulative sum of    its expectation May show a trend if there is a common Influence or correlation among the eggs

13. When we make a composite across eggs, the cumulative deviation may show a trend

14. Since Earth Day is a repeating event, we can examine the previous year’s data too

15. And the year before that … from which we learn once again how much we don’t know