--- begin forwarded text User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 01:08:28 -0500 Reply-To: Law & Policy of Computer Communications Sender: Law & Policy of Computer Communications From: Inna Barmash Subject: Re: [CYBERIA] a story that might be of interest to cyberians To: CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM This is a really interesting project at Princeton, and it's been going on for decades. (see the book "Margins of Reality" - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/015657246X/qid=1108619801/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/002-8298211-8744829?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) I've taken the tour of the laboratory and participated in a couple of the experiments (as a guinea pig, that is). The feeling there is quite surreal, and they have dramatized the setting in the lab itself quite well. The random number generator is a huge machine with a downstream of little balls, which the subjects - through the power of immense consciuos concentration - make go one way or the other. They also have a wave-simulating machine, which supposedly echoes the patterns of the Jersey shore waves. For at least some of the machines, the researchers have found a significant effect not only with people in the same room, but subjects as far as Australia, AND even in the future - influencing the "random" outcome of the past ... It'll be interesting to see if the significant effects are amplified with more and more subjects pitching in through this international project. --Inna Paul Gowder wrote:

Check out this article re: random number generators apparently influenced by consciousness: http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=126649#121

the Princeton project that this is connected with: http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

This is fascinating, and potentially groundbreakingly huge stuff.

God, how I want to go back to school and study math and physics. Maybe in a few years I will.

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