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ICRL's Next Meetup

Saturday, April 8th at 1:00 pm EST

Indicative Structures in GCP Data: Models and Meaning

with Dr. Roger Nelson

The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) began in 1998, ran a formal experiment for 17 years until December 2015, and continues to produce data today. The bottom line result is an average deviation of about 1/3 of a standard deviation, and a compounded departure from expectation of more than 7 sigma, with odds against chance of about 3 trillion to one. There is little dispute about the experimental results, but explanation is a different matter. Two models stand out. One suggests that there is a consciousness or information field sourced in the mass consciousness that comes about when events cause synchronized thoughts and emotions in large numbers of people. This implies field-like influences in the data to confirm the hypothesis. The second is a suggestion that experimenters choose felicitous timing of events based on precognizing future outcomes to capitalize on unusual but normal fluctuations that confirm the specified hypothesis.

Either model can credibly address the primary result, which addresses the experimental question. However, by looking at other measures of structure in the data or at applications, we change the question. Differences appear when we categorize the events. Multi-scale entropy calculations show structure that is general, not limited to the events. Novel applications using GCP data as predictors for economic models show interactions with the "real" world. Neuroscience tools for assessing evoked response potentials (ERP), applied to the GCP data show clear ERP structure, albeit on a scale of hours rather than milliseconds. All of these additional analysis perspectives identify structure that cannot be explained by an experimenter effect. They are, however, readily encompassed by field-like models.

About Dr. Nelson: Roger Nelson runs the Global Consciousness Project (GCP), an international collaboration studying mass consciousness. He conducted psi research at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory from 1980 to 2002, and while at Princeton, created the GCP in 1997. Interests in psychology, physics, philosophy, and the arts facilitate his research at the edges of what we know. His focus is the subtle interconnections that define an emerging humanity. https://global-mind.org

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In loving memory of
Brenda Dunne

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