The Global Consciousness Project

A long term, continuing experiment called the Global Consciousness Project (GCP) looks for non-random structure in synchronized random data streams generated during major events. A global network of random number generators (RNGs) records parallel sequences of random data at up to 65 sites around the world, and a rigorous experiment tests the hypothesis that the data will deviate from expectation during "global events" defined as transitory episodes of widespread mental and emotional response to great celebrations and tragedies. The ongoing replication experiment measures correlations across the network during the designated events, and the result from more than 450 formal hypothesis tests over the past 15 years departs substantially from expectation, with odds of more than a trillion to one against the null hypothesis. Controls exclude conventional physical explanations or experimental error, and the experimental design constrains interpretation. The results suggest that some aspect of human consciousness is involved as a source of the effects. The subtle structuring of random data indicates an effect of coherent human attention and emotion in the physical world.