February 24, 2005

Experimental Evidence of the Collective Unconscious?

Huh? :: RedNova News - Can This Black Box See Into the Future?
At first glance this looks like just another crackpot story for the archives, but looking closer this appears to be a serious experiment by serious researches with some mind-bending results.

DEEP in the basement of a dusty university library in Edinburgh lies a small black box, roughly the size of two cigarette packets side by side, that churns out random numbers in an endless stream...
...'It's Earth-shattering stuff,' says Dr Roger Nelson, emeritus researcher at Princeton University in the United States, who is heading the research project behind the 'black box' phenomenon.
'We're very early on in the process of trying to figure out what's going on here. At the moment we're stabbing in the dark.' Dr Nelson's investigations, called the Global Consciousness Project, were originally hosted by Princeton University and are centred on one of the most extraordinary experiments of all time. Its aim is to detect whether all of humanity shares a single subconscious mind that we can all tap into without realising.

Luke: "What's wrong, Obi-Wan?"
Obi-Wan: "A great disturbance in the Force. It was like a million voices crying out in unison, then suddenly silenced."

Posted by bill at February 24, 2005 12:10 AM
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