The Science of Wholeness 2/6: Global Consciousness – Manifesting Meaningful Structure in Random Data (with Dr. Roger Nelson)

November 5, 2023. 1 hour and 50 mins. The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is a long-term experiment using a world-spanning network of physical random number generators to collect data continuously, 24/7, since 1998. Nelson’s team has recorded parallel sequences of data from the network, consisting of trials of 200 bits recorded each second at each node and sent to archiving servers in Princeton, NJ. A formal experiment ran for 17 years and comprised 500 replications of fully specified and pre-registered event analyses. These tested a general hypothesis that engaging events of deep interest to large numbers of people around the…