and now for something completely different...

[Tim May]

On Tuesday, October 2, 2001, at 05:56 PM, Steve Schear wrote:

> Princeton University has for a while been host to a number of 
> computerized
> studies of random number generators. The Princeton Engineering Anomalies
> Research Lab (PEAR) is one. Another of them is the Global Consciousness
> Project (GCP), whose data is available on the web at
> http://noosphere.princeton.edu/ .
....
> obvious answer. When we look carefully and discover that the eggs might
> reflect our shock and dismay even before our minds and hearts express 
> it,
> we confront a still deeper mystery.
> ...
> This network, which we designed as a metaphoric EEG for the planet,
> responded as if it were measuring brain waves on a planetary scale. We 
> do
> not know if there is such a thing as a global consciousness, but if 
> there ...


Thanks for the Fruitcake Alert.


--Tim May